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By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | July 02, 2008
Medicare awards nearly $25M in hospital P4P pilotA pay-for-performance project has resulted in a 15.8 percent boost in quality over three years at 250 hospitals across the country, the Pre...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | July 02, 2008
ST. PETERSBURG, FL – Three hospitals in the University of Maryland Medical System are now able to share financial and clinical data on patients, thanks to the implementation of CareMedic Systems...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | July 02, 2008
NEWPORT BEACH, CA – While The Trizetto Group edges toward a June 30 shareholder vote on plans to go private, the company has been keeping busy with a flurry of new deals.The Newport Bea...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | July 02, 2008
MPV automates processes for 3 medical groupsMedical Present Value, Inc. of Austin, Texas has added three academic medical groups to its list of customers seeking to automate payer contract...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | July 02, 2008
Patients paying with plastic find themselves in debtThe latest issue of Consumer Reports looks at how some patients, after being encouraged and sometimes pressured to use their credit card...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | July 02, 2008
WEST ALLIS, WI – Merge Healthcare might have found the financial backing needed to keep the medical imaging company out of bankruptcy, but it comes with a high price tag.The West Allis,...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | July 01, 2008
Bernanke: Reform needed to help the uninsuredFederal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said America needs to find a better way to help the estimated 47 million people who don’t have a...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | June 30, 2008
Kronos, Inc. has announced that Norton Healthcare of Louisville, Ky. is using the company’s labor productivity and workforce analytics tool to publicly report nurse staffing ratios to illustrate...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | June 23, 2008
Emdeon Business Services of Nashville, Tenn. has announced that it has processed its one billionth pharmacy claim for the U.S. Department of Defense through the Pharmacy Data Transaction Service (PDTS...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | June 18, 2008
In a deal designed to give the company more operating capital, MEDecision, Inc. has reached a merger agreement with one of its largest clients.The deal, announced Wednesday, allows the Chicag...