Healthcare Finance Staff
Contributed by Sen. Chuck Grassley HEALTHCARE REFORM has been elusive over the past two decades. Neither Congress nor the sitting president has been able to agree on ways to improve our hea...
A study conducted in part by ActiveHealth Management has found that a value-based insurance design program can increase compliance on the use of certain medications for chronic conditions if coupled w...
Surveys of specialties show revenue/cost variations Recent surveys by the Medical Group Management Association show physician group practices battling rising costs in cardiology and ort...
Chicago-based Allscripts has announced the purchase of the Extended Care Information Network, also of Chicago, for approximately $90 million. ECIN provides hospital care management and discharg...
Two healthcare IT giants have announced a strategic alliance to help state governments with their Medicaid Management Information Systems (MMIS). Ingenix, based in Eden Prair...
San Francisco-based Practice Fusion has announced a partnership with Physician Services, Inc. of California and Azalea Health Innovations, Inc. of Georgia, allowing the company to offer its bil...
Allscripts, long known for its clinical software and information systems for physicians, is taking aim at hospitals now with the purchase of the Extended Care Information Network, a Chicago-based prov...
Emdeon Business Services has bolstered its healthcare portfolio with the purchase of IXT Solutions, a provider of integrated patient billing and payment solutions. Both companies a...
3i Infotech, an Edison, N.J.-based provider of IT solutions and services, has announced that FinCor Holdings, Inc. has selected the company's PREMIA Integrated Insurance management solution to...
U.S. Preventive Medicine is crossing the Atlantic. The Dallas-based provider of prevention-based services for hospitals and healthcare providers in the United States has signed a l...