Healthcare Finance Staff
The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) Foundation has announced it is initiating the Health Information Relief Operation (pronounced "Hero") Fund as an ongoing recovery source to assist health information management (HIM) professionals whose lives have been shattered by natural or man-made disaster.
Fallon Clinic has announced that 96 percent of its doctors have achieved meaningful use. The clinic has been selected by HIMSS as a finalist for a 2011 Ambulatory Care Davies Award of Excellence.
When AHIP Institute convenes on June 15, the conference and exhibition will in reality be four events rolled into one.
Health plans that focus their energy on the four areas of health reform compliance, increasing administrative efficiency, improving quality of care and finding a successful method of competing in health insurance exchanges are those that will prosper over the long-haul.
While many states are dragging their feet on setting up their state health insurance exchanges and their specific structures remain unknown, health plans can nonetheless start work now to address operational and strategic changes they will need to make in order to participate in this new distribution channel.
Optimism among chief financial officers in the United States has fallen, but spending plans indicate continued moderate growth over the next year, according to the most recent Duke University/CFO Global Business Outlook Survey.
WellPoint Inc. announced today that it entered into an agreement to acquire CareMore Health Group, a Medicare Advantage health plan that also operates 26 clinics in select markets in California, Arizona and Nevada.
Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services (HFS) has realized $262 million in net savings during the fourth year of Your Healthcare Plus, a care management program administered by McKesson.
Value-based insurance design (VBID), conceived by a multi-disciplinary faculty team at the university of Michigan, works on the premise of aligning patients' out-of-pocket costs with the value of health services. As applied to benefit plan design, VBID recognizes that different health services have different levels of value.