Healthcare Finance Staff

Just in time for the holidays: Health insurance purchased online. Motivated in part by an expected 29 percent increase in online purchases this holiday season,...

The Sentinel Group, a Lake Forest, Ill.-based provider of health claim fraud and abuse services, has signed Summit Administration Services, a third-party administrator based in Scottsdale, Ariz...

IMPAC Medical Systems, Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Sweden-based Elekta Group, has announced it will make a $1.6 million investment in The Michener Institute for...

Task force makes fiscal suggestions for hospitalThe Hospital System Strategic Task Force, assembled by Connecticut Gov. Jodi Rell, has presented draft recommendations to improve Connecticut&#...

Contributed By Thomas R. Green THIS FALL, Standard & Poor’s issued a report expressing concern over the credit risks of not-for-profit healthcare providers with speculative-grade rati...

BELFAST, ME - Another member of the Bush family is coming to Maine. athenahealth, a Watertown, Mass-based provider of Internet-based business services f...

SUNNYVALE, CA - IMPAC Medical Systems Inc., a subsidiary of the Stockholm, Sweden-based Elekta Group, has announced that it will make a $1.6 million investment in The Michener Institute for Applied He...

Carestream Health, Inc. of Rochester, N.Y. and Avreo, Inc. of Charleston, S.C. have entered into an agreement that enables Avreo to start selling Carestream’s line of eHealth Managed Serv...

U.S. healthcare payers to limit IT investments in 2008 Although top U.S. healthcare payers reported pricing transparency initiatives in 2007, they face challenges in 2008 that will limit...

Contributed by Bill Lenhart and Richard Davis WHEN IT COMES TO nursing home, rehabilitation facility and hospital bankruptcy cases, most debtor companies are in financial distress because o...