Healthcare Finance Staff
The American Medical Association says more healing is needed before it can pronounce healthcare's claims process cured.
A key problem is inconsistency, highlighting the need for standardization, the AMA says.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Care Consumer Confidence Index found that Americans' confidence in their health insurance coverage and access to healthcare rose slightly in June.
The nation could save billions of dollars each year in the healthcare system by reducing administrative complexity, according to the Healthcare Administrative Simplification Coalition.
Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions is teaming up with a broad-based coalition of Connecticut healthcare providers and employers to launch a statewide health information exchange.
Americans are unsure that a healthcare reform bill introduced this week is the solution to problems with the healthcare system, according to a poll created and commissioned by the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
Medicare could save up to $18 billion over the next decade by implementing a radiology benefit management program, according to MedSolutions, which provides cost management of medical services for healthcare payers.
If Congress creates a national health insurance purchasing exchange or a public health insurance plan that would compete with private insurers through the exchange, it should consider establishing federal coverage and underwriting rules that would pre-empt existing state standards.
WellNet Healthcare is targeting the Web 2.0 movement with the release of Point to Point Healthcare, described as a "Facebook-like social networking platform" for healthcare consumers.
About 45,000 office-based physicians may be eligible for up to $63,750 in ARRA funding over six years to improve and maintain their health information technology systems because of their participation in Medicaid, according to a n
Avera McKennan Hospital and University Health Center of Sioux Falls, S.D., has signed a multi-year agreement to implement Web-based payment management technology.