Healthcare Finance Staff
As the healthcare industry looks for ways to function more efficiently, Ricoh Company, Ltd.'s eWriter Solutions business unit has added a new product to the mix.
Healthcare Finance News Editor Richard Pizzi spoke recently with Kelley Blair, senior vice president of professional services at Craneware, about best practices in managing the hospital charge description master (CDM). Kelley has spent many hours working with hospital business office personnel on chargemaster maintenance.
McKesson has announced an agreement to buy Portico Systems for a reported $90 million, a deal that will combine the two companies' offerings around care management and network management and position McKesson for anticipated shifts in the healthcare market.
A recent study in Health Affairs examined for the first time the effects that differences in healthcare service volume and price, rather than simply spending and use, have on state and regional Medicaid spending.
Lifestyle-based analytics may be an "emerging" predictive health model, but experts note that it's "simply taking data that we already have at our fingertips" and analyzing it in ways that weren't possible before.
Edward Sim has been named President of Physician Integration at Baptist Health.
State health insurance exchanges, to be built by 2014 under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), may prove to be good for vendors who provide consulting services on how to make customer service available on health plan websites, experts say.
Insurers' investments in health IT have not yielded the personalized service customers crave, according to a new survey from global consulting firm Accenture.
For some reason the Boston Globe devotes its top slot on the July 25 Opinion page to a tired and faulty argument (If a law doesn't work, waive it away?) from former US GOP Senator John Sununu against the employer mandate in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). The Department of Health and Human Services has granted waivers to some employers to allow them to continue offering plans with low annual caps (aka mini-med plans)