Healthcare Finance Staff
David Barham, vice president of finance for operations for Baptist Memorial Health Care in Memphis, Tenn., is this month's Newsmaker.
In an effort to increase understanding of the tax and grandfathering provisions of healthcare reform, WellPoint Inc. recently launched two new online tools to help business owners understand the implications of these provisions with their current health plan.
The Integrated Healthcare Association (IHA), a statewide leadership group that promotes quality improvement, accountability and affordability of healthcare in California, has named its top 45 performing physician organizations for 2009, based on the IHA statewide Pay for Performance (P4P) program measures.
Acquiring and retaining the best risk, meeting the 80 percent medical loss ratio and establishing cost-effective distribution channels and working with exchanges are top priorities of executives of health insurance companies, according to a recent survey.
Alisa Ray, executive director of the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology, said Friday that CCHIT doesn't foresee a backlog of any kind in accommodating testing for meaningful use certification.
California's critical-access, rural hospitals got a big boost when UnitedHealth Group announced it would provide $10 million in loans to help them adopt electronic health records and improve their health IT systems, and $1 million in grants to jumpstart the process.
Health Language, Inc. (HLI), a maker of medical terminology management software, and HCL Technologies, a global IT services provider based in India, have joined forces to put HLI's Language Engine to work as part of HCL's end-to-end ICD-10 conversion solution.
A-Life Medical, the San Diego-based computer-assisted coding company, is the newest firm to be brought into the Ingenix fold. The acquisition follows a strategic alliance formed between the two companies last year.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The Department of Health and Human Services on Monday proposed new rules to help fight waste, fraud and abuse in Medicare, Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program.
The Association of Northern California Oncologists (ANCO) recently selected Via Oncology Pathways as a preferred pathways option for its nearly 400 members.