Healthcare Finance Staff
API Healthcare, a healthcare-specific workforce management technology company based in Wisconsin, and Kronos, a global workforce management solutions company based in Massachusetts, are terminating their previously announced merger agreement.
The Commander of the American Legion is urging Congress to pass a bill that would allow military veterans to pay for non-combat-related medical care received at VA hospitals with their Medicare coverage.
The American Health Care Association, the National Center for Assisted Living and LeadingAge, a Washington, D.C.-based association of nonprofits focused on quality of life for America's aging population, have negotiated an agreement with the Motion Picture Licensing Corporation that exempts these facilities from video licensing fees.
Alexian Brothers Health System and Ascension Health have signed a non-binding Letter of Intent, which makes plans for Alexian Brothers Health System to become part of Ascension Health, the largest Catholic health system in the nation.
Compensation for medical directors varies widely across specialties, with the lowest reported by internists and pediatricians at $7,500, according to the Medical Group Management Association's "Medical Directorship and On-Call Compensation Survey: 2011 Report Based on 2010 Data."
At a Bipartisan Policy Center panel discussion on Tuesday, newly-appointed National Coordinator Farzad Mostashari, MD, was optimistic – but also warned of challenges for healthcare IT advancement in the coming few years.
Two former U.S. senators, one a Republican, the other a Democrat, do not have to cross the aisle to work together.
The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) has called on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to use its authority to waive what the ATA calls the "restriction-riddled" Medicare telemedicine statute for the new Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs).
United States Life Insurance, a subsidiary of AIG, has agreed to pay $760,000 in restitution and fines in a settlement with Massachusetts for selling and marketing illegal health insurance products to consumers.
The Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare (CAQH) announced Monday that it has launched a transition committee to make recommendations about multi-stakeholder governance of its Committee on Operating Rules for Information Exchange (CORE) initiative.