Healthcare Finance Staff
The Affordable Care Act offers effective new technology and sophisticated data analysis for reducing healthcare fraud that will build on programs that helped Medicare and Medicaid recover billions of dollars in 2009, according to the government's annual Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program (HCFAC) report.
A physician in his office consults with a specialist in another location over a secure video feed to help diagnose a patient. A doctor in transit uses his iPhone to schedule appointments, order tests and view a recent mammogram.
Tom Galarowicz is Director of Revenue Management at ThedaCare, a four-hospital community health system based in Appleton, Wis., employing almost 5,300 people.
Susan Turley is CFO of Doctors Hospital at Renaissance, McAllen, Texas. Doctors Hospital at Renaissance (DHR), a 503-bed general acute care hospital and one of the largest physician-owned facilities in the United States.
The Department of Health and Human Services Office on Disability has announced the establishment of a new Center of Excellence in Research on Disability Services, Care Coordination and Integration.
The Kansas Health Policy Authority (KHPA) has extended a $119 million two-year technology services contract with HP Enterprise Services. The extension, which includes two one-year options, will allow the state to meet its budget without eliminating staff or reducing customer service.
Healthcare IT leaders are hailing President Obama's nomination of Donald Berwick, MD, to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services as a signal of the administration's commitment to quality.
The Hawaii Medical Service Association (HMSA), the Blue Cross Blue Shield plan of the Aloha State, will become the first health plan to deploy American Well's new Online Care Team Edition. The new service will bring live, on-demand specialist care consultations into primary care docs' exam rooms – reducing the delay, inconvenience and cost associated with the traditional patient referral process.
The TriZetto Group and 3M Health Information Systems announced an agreement last month that gives TriZetto certain exclusivity to include 3M's ICD-10 Code Translation Tool with several new services for payers under its TriZetto Advantage 10 Services.
An online provider of health insurance information is boosting its Medicare portfolio with a new acquisition.