Healthcare Finance Staff
Contributed by Fred Bazzoli and Chip Means PLANO, TX – With another of the nation’s largest hospital chains announcing a multi-billion dollar buyout last month,...
WASHINGTON - Twenty-seven states will look for new ways to improve the efficiency, economy and quality of their Medicaid programs with help from $103 million in “transformation grants” awa...
Navicure, a provider of automated, Web-based revenue cycle management (RCM) solutions for physician practices, has announced a new contract with the Methodist Medical Group of Peoria,...
groups receive grant to promote patient safety The Health Research and Educational Trust, the Institute for Safe Medication Practices and the Medical Group Management Associ...
Insurers raise premiums, deny surpluses Washington state-based health insurance companies have continued to increase their premiums even though they are suspected of having $2...
Contributed by Francois de Brantes/Douglas Emery Health information exchanges or regional health information organizations have emerged as vehicles to facilitate the f...
Consorta members can get food service software Hospitals belonging to Consorta Inc., a Schaumburg, Ill.-based group purchasing organization, will receive discounted pricing on sof...
students, physicians lobby Congress on uninsured Congress saw students, physicians and other healthcare industry stakeholders lobby for expanded coverage during the American Med...
Contributed by Jamie Cleverley Several months ago, I was in San Diego for a presentation on hospital pricing. One of the primary discussions involved California’s higher relativ...
A 2006 REPORT that indicates there are more emergencies than necessary in the nation’s emergency departments has hospitals looking to automation to clean up the process – and the bottom li...