Jack Beaudoin
A friend and I were discussing a plan to overhaul Maine’s school system, reducing the number of districts from more than 400 to 26. Even though we’re both skeptical of the promised $29...
The latest results of Healthcare Finance News’ NewsMonitor poll show that nearly twice as many respondents predict 2007 will produce a better bottom line than 2006. In January, we ask...
Congratulations! You have been named Time Magazine's "Person of the Year." Of course, it's a shared honor. You won. But that guy over there, in the corner – he won, too. And the Fed...
Congress may have changed as a result of the 2006 elections, but few financial managers see much hope that legislators will permanently address cuts threatened each year as part of the government's Su...
If 2006 was the year consumer directed health plans began to pick up steam, 2007 may be the year that all-in-one "smart" cards, designed to automate the payment process, grab the public spotlight....
December proved a cool month for some publicly traded healthcare providers. Analysts were generally bearish on the prospects of companies like Triad Hospitals and Tenet Health, thanks to declining mar...
Hospitals in Texas, Mississippi, Missouri and New York top the third annual Top 200 Coding Hospital Report presented by HSS, an Ingenix company. Officials unveiled the list at the American Health Info...
Officials at Spectrum Health, an integrated delivery network in Michigan, could probably give 10 persuasive reasons why putting healthcare prices on a hospital Web site is a bad idea. Ba...
Business Objects is betting that financial managers in hospitals are getting tired of guessing at the actual costs of providing services and procedures in their facilities. This...