Healthcare Finance Staff

Blues: new incentives ‘crucial’ to healthcareThe Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association says any plans for healthcare reform should include incentives to provide quality care....

LOUISVILLE, KY – They had the name, and the technology came in increments. All they needed was the motivation.Last month, officials at SHPS, the Louisville, Ky.-based provider of health...

HOUSTON – The processes of coding and charge capture are often complicated, time-consuming, paper-intensive tasks more suited to administrators than clinicians. To make those tasks easi...

WAKEFIELD, MA – Short of bringing an accountant into the operating room, hospitals don’t have many options for easily and accurately determining OR revenues and cost consumption.P...

Rule could open homecare to Medicare beneficiariesMany Medicare beneficiaries will be able to receive care in their homes rather than an institutional setting, thanks to a proposed rule re...

ANOTHER INSURER has said it will no longer pay for hospital treatment required after egregious mistakes made by hospital staff.Cigna HealthCare announced it is taking steps to stop reimbursin...

Hospitals provide economic boost to their communitiesThe value of hospitals to the communities they serve extends far beyond healthcare and plays an important role in supporting the econom...

New AHRQ Web resource targets provider savingsThe Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has launched the Health Care Innovations Exchange, the federal government's repository for succ...

Affiliated Computer Sciences, Inc. of Dallas has announced an agreement to acquire the CompIQ Corp. of Irvine, Calif., a provider of workers' compensation claims review, re-pricing and software...

The McKesson Corp. is boosting its RelayHealth connectivity services business with the acquisition of HTP, a Columbus, Ohio-based provider of healthcare compensation services.HTP's software s...