Healthcare Finance Staff
Mary Geegan Middleton, Executive Director, Cassopolis Family Clinic, Cassopolis, Mich., 2 locales, 8 providers
HFMA will present the following 10 hospitals with the MAP Award for High Performance in Revenue Cycle during ANI.
Glenn Steele, president and CEO of the Geisinger Health System in Danville, Pa., will deliver a keynote address on the subject of physician integration at the Healthcare Financial Management Association’s 2010 ANI conference. He spoke recently with Healthcare Finance News Editor Richard Pizzi about some of the factors involved in achieving true integration.
MEDecision announced today a partnership with NaviNet that will enable payers to deliver patient clinical summaries to any provider in the vast NaviNet Network.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has selected Companion Data Services to provide data processing and hosting operations for a National Level Repository system that will track incentive payments to heathcare providers that adopt electronic health records and upgrade their computer systems.
A new government demonstration project will bring together Medicare, private insurers and states to improve primary care and reduce costs, with healthcare information technology as an underpinning.
Florida is famous for its sunshine, but it's infamous for its Medicaid fraud. With the fourth largest program in the country, covering more than 2.1 million people, the state loses as much as $3.2 billion in fraudulent claims each year.
Hudson Health Plan, a Medicaid managed care organization based in Tarrytown, N.Y., is poised to roll out new software that will mine its voluminous stores of patient data to ensure that members who are in need of extra attention are directed to the nurses and case managers they need.
Capital BlueCross, of Harrisburg, Pa. has announced a three-year renewal agreement with McLean, Va-based Prematics, Inc. for their electronic prescribing service. More than 1,000 practitioners who provide care for a million patients across central Pennsylvania and the Lehigh Valley use the service.
"Investing in heath information technology is a top priority for health plans," says Robert Zirkelbach, press secretary of America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) whose Institute 2010 conference takes place Wednesday, June 9 to Friday, June 11 in Las Vegas.