Healthcare Finance Staff
Forty-eight upstate New York hospitals earned more than $22 million in quality improvement incentive payments from Excellus BlueCross BlueShield as part of the health insurer's Hospital Performance Incentive Program.
The TriZetto Group and 3M Health Information Systems announced an agreement Friday that gives TriZetto certain exclusivity to include 3M's ICD-10 Code Translation Tool with several new services for payers under its TriZetto Advantage 10 Services.
At the HIMSS10 Interoperability Showcase, the Federal Health Architecture (FHA) exhibited 40 kiosks of 23 scenarios involving 60 organizations, increasing its presence times eight.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has announced $4.3 billion in financial relief to states through reductions in payments that offset the cost of prescription drug coverage for Medicare and Medicaid eligible patients.
Chrissy Yamada is chief financial officer at Evergreen Healthcare (Kirkland, Wash.)
Commentary from Stephen W. Bernstein, partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery and is head of the firm’s Health Industry Advisory Practice Group.
Commentary from John Casillas, senior vice president of the HIMSS Medical Banking Project
Several major health insurers are part of a coalition that is promoting texting as a way to keep expectant women, new moms and their babies healthy.
The Health IT Summit for Government Leaders in Washington, D.C. launched the new program that sends free health information directly to expectant and new moms' mobile phones last month. Officials are touting the text4baby program as the first free mobile health service in the country, with participants paying nothing to send or receive messages.
James Cameron's sci-fi movie Avatar centers on a Marine who, through a nifty bit of futuristic technology, is able to slip into a virtual body and explore an extraterrestrial world.
Like everywhere, Detroit has been hit hard by this recession – only much, much worse.
So when Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan started investigating ways to cut costs, they were wary about pursuing some of the options that might have realized the most savings.