Richard Pizzi

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, one of the nation's premiere cancer treatment centers, has signed a multi-year contract for revenue cycle management and collection management services.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has announced plans to make $1 billion available for the Community Services Block Grant program.

During the last 10 years, New York counties outside New York City cited the transfer of personal financial assets in denying an average of 7 percent of applications for Medicaid coverage of nursing home care.

The Obama administration will make $2.3 billion in Recovery Act funds available for health and human services programs that provide care for children and prevent disease.

The New Jersey Division of Medical Assistance issued proposed rules this week to establish a new diagnosis related group rate setting methodology, based on a DRG weighting system, using recent Medicare cost report and claim data.

Payment reform is essential to state participation in federal healthcare information technology stimulus efforts, according to participants in a panel at the HIMSS 2009 Annual Conference & Exhibition this week.

The American Medical Association is reducing its 2009 operating budget to offset declining revenues amid the ongoing economic downturn, and laying off 100 staff members.

MetroSouth Medical Center in Blue Island, Illinois has selected a new provider of supply chain services to help manage its approximate $25 million in annual spend.

There is a great deal of resistance to healthcare reform because industry players make so much money from the current system, according to George Halvorson, chairman and CEO of Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals.

Employment at U.S. hospitals fell 0.7 percent in March 2009 to a seasonally adjusted 4,709,900 people, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported last week.