Richard Pizzi

BJC HealthCare, one of the largest nonprofit healthcare organizations in the United States, intends to automate and standardize its charge description master and pricing.

The Internal Revenue Service has determined that medical residents are excepted from FICA taxes based on the "student exception" for tax periods ending before April 1, 2005, when new IRS regulations went into effect.

Lakeland Regional Medical Center, an 851-bed facility based in Lakeland, Fla., is adding time and attendance technology in an attempt to increase operational efficiencies.

Online advertised vacancies for healthcare practitioners, technical occupations and support personnel fell in February, according to a report released this week.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has instructed its contractors to hold claims containing services paid under the Medicare physician fee schedule for the first 10 business days of March.

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.