Healthcare Finance Staff

Contributed by Andy Draper, senior vice president of business development and strategy for Bluegate Corp., a Houston-based provider of healthcare IT solutions. As a result of the Sta...

RALEIGH, NC – The Center for Community Health Leadership, an initiative sponsored by Misys Healthcare Systems, has selected the city of Greater New Haven, Conn. as the first recipient of a grant...

Report: Hospitals to see extra $300M in revenues American hospitals are expected to find an additional $300 million in net patient revenues in 2007, as more than 1,000 additional...

Children’s hospitals ask Congress to save SCHIP Last month, 35 regional coalitions led by children’s hospitals, Catholic hospitals and other healthcare organizations c...

WALTHAM, MA – Tenet Healthcare, one of the nation’s largest hospital chains, is paying $900 million to resolve charges that it had cheated the government by overbilling Medicare and paying...

OAKLAND, CA – Kaiser Permanente has been selling its health savings accounts in California since August, but the product rollout only became effective on January 1. During th...

Contributed by David Fein, CEO of ValuSource, a Colorado Springs, Colo.-based provider of business valuation and medical practice benchmarking technology. Most people know that benchmarking...

175 companies commit to Bush transparency plan Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt announced in January that 175 companies – up from 100 in December – ha...

LOS ANGELES – A six-year-old healthcare IT company that has focused on custom-based systems software applications is turning its attention to subscription modules – and tackling two of hea...

Salt Lake City-based 3M Health Information Systems has added a module to its 3M Coding and Reimbursement System to enable medical necessity validation at the point of c...