athenahealth and Physicians Practice have released their fifth annual PayerView Rankings, which indicate that health insurers, on average, are paying physicians seven days faster and denying 12 percent to 18 percent fewer claims than last year.
Intuit Inc., the Mountain View, Calif.-based provider of financial management solutions for small and mid-sized businesses, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Medfusion, of Cary, N.C., which makes front-office and back-office software designed to improve patient-to-provider communications.
Doctors are skeptical about the future of medicine, according to a survey conducted by athenahealth, a provider of Web-based practice management tools, and Sermo, an online community for physicians.
President Barack Obama spoke in support of his landmark health reform in Maine Thursday afternoon, touting a new course that, after "a year of debate and a century of trying," has become the law of the land.