Richard Pizzi

The new HIMSS Medical Banking Project was unveiled on Sunday at HIMSS10, as HIMSS CEO Stephen Lieber kicked off the Medical Banking Boot Camp with a keynote address.

The Gwinnett Health System, a three-hospital integrated delivery network in Lawrenceville, Ga., plans to implement a new revenue cycle management solution in part to help detect errors made during the patient registration process.

Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services believes the U.S. not-for-profit healthcare sector has begun to stabilize after a very difficult period.

Healthcare providers and payers don't often see eye-to-eye on reimbursement issues. But that's ever the more reason to get them together in the same room, better yet at the same table.

Children’s Health Care System of Forth Worth, Texas, has signed a deal to implement multiple supply chain, human resources and contract management software applications in an effort to improve its business processes.

In these days of increasing bad debt, depleted cash-on-hand and narrow margins, health systems need to streamline their revenue cycle operations, and that often means outsourcing services or automating processes that were previously done by hand.

St. Mary’s Hospital in Passaic, N.J., has completed a reorganization plan and appears to be on it’s way out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy status.

State Medicaid programs around the country continue to take the brunt of legislative budget cuts in early 2010, and hospitals are feeling the heat.

In late February, we learned from Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services that the U.S. not-for-profit healthcare sector had begun to stabilize. Or at least it had stabilized enough so that S&P expects its healthcare ratings and outlooks won’t be tanking in 2010.

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission has recommended that Congress give hospitals a fiscal year 2011 payment update equal to the rate of change in the market basket index, currently projected at 2.4 percent, concurrent with implementation of a pay-for-performance program.