Healthcare Finance Staff

Thanks to almost $100 million in settlement proceeds from health insurers, a new reimbursement database for out-of-network healthcare charges is being developed in New York.

In this video from the Center for American Progress, Karen Davenport explains what it means to modernize the healthcare system and how doing so could save $550 billion over 10 years.

A regional not-for-profit health insurer serving New York, Vermont and New Hampshire will reimburse physicians for online consults.

Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey has deployed a new Web-based portal to use as its health information exchange platform. The new multi-layer Web portal, developed by Cambridge, Mass.-based NaviNet, will be used to assist Horizon BCBSNJ in reducing paperwork, simplifying administrative processes and reducing expenses with electronic exchange of health data.

Ezekiel Emanuel, a White House adviser on healthcare policy, says high-touch is the way to fix the nation's failing – and costly – healthcare system.

A new initiative launched in Ohio plans to improve the flow of information between health plans and physicians' offices using a multi-payer Web portal.

Northwest Hospital & Medical Center, a 281-bed acute care hospital, has agreed to an expanded affiliation with the University of Washington Medicine health system.

Commentary by Thomas Green, CEO of Lancaster Pollard

NewsMaker Interview with Peter Bastone, chief executive officer at Mission Hospital Regional Medical Center in Madison Vejo, Calif.

Commentary by Judy Bielawski, of the Dickson Company.