Healthcare Finance Staff

LOUISVILLE, KY – Humana’s launch of a new portfolio of individual health insurance plans in four states under its HumanaOne brand is the most recent announcement by payers targeting the in...

Premiums increase at slowest pace in eight years Health insurance premiums have increased at the slowest pace in eight years, according to a new report published by the Kaiser Famil...

CHICAGO – The good times just keep on rolling for Allscripts. The Chicago-based provider of clinical software, connectivity and information solutions for physician practices has annou...

WASHINGTON – Medicare officials must make physician reimbursement data available to the public by Sept. 21, a U.S. district court ordered in late August. The Centers for Medicare & Me...

WESTBORO, MA – Activity in the business analytics market picked up a notch last month with the announcement that Applix, Inc. will be acquired by Ottawa-based business intelligence provider...

RALEIGH, NC – Last July, Misys Healthcare Systems took a strategic step back in selling off two smaller business units to concentrate on the ambulatory healthcare market. About a month ago, the...

Medplexus launches Saas-based suite of solutions MedPlexus, a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based provider of Internet-based administrative, financial and clinical software and services for phy...

Contributed by Sherry Elliott and Leslie Fox ACCORDING TO THE American Medical Group Association’s 2006 Medical Group Compensation and Financial Survey, physician co...

Hospitals fall short on preventing infectionsEighty-seven percent of U.S. hospitals do not comply with recommended steps for preventing infections, according to a new study by the Leapfrog...

Contributed by Linc Smith IN APRIL, states, communities and advocacy groups across the nation again marked “Cover the Uninsured Week,” an important reminder that nearly 45 mi...