Healthcare Finance Staff
BOSTON – Massachusetts hospitals will no longer charge patients or insurers for treatments rendered to address preventable errors that occur within a hospital. With this annou...
BELFAST, ME – Another member of the Bush family is coming to Maine. athenahealth, a Watertown, Mass.-based provider of Internet-based business services for physician practices, has announced...
SALT LAKE CITY, UT – Jim Pack, the CEO of AdvancedMD Software, Inc., figures that his company has never seen most of its customers. And that’s just fine with him. “...
Contributed by Carter Pate FOR THE FIRST TIME since President Bill Clinton was elected in 1992, the topic of healthcare is the most important domestic issue. That means health industry e...
Insurance group offers individual coverage plan Insurers announced plans in December to enable more individuals, even those with health problems, to get health insurance. A report titled...
Incentive model could save nation $368B, report says Investment in a healthcare incentive, decision-making and cost-effectiveness program could save the United States $368 billion over 10...
Hospitalists reduce stays, have little impact on cost A recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that patients treated by hospitalists had slightly shorter le...
CHARLESTON, SC – Just in time for the new year: Health insurance purchased online. Motivated in part by a roughly 30 percent increase in online purchases during the recent hol...
Medical practices having problems with slow-paying customers or insurance collections might be advised to try a new solution that promises to speed up the process. Transworld...
BOSTON – When the Commonwealth of Massachusetts decided in April 2006 to make it mandatory that all residents have health insurance, officials realized they’d better have something in...