MPV signs contracts with 4 Western health groups
Medical Present Value, Inc., of Austin, Texas has announced that four Western-based multi-specialty groups have signed contracts to implement MPV’s Phynance application to improve payer contract management and monitor contract compliance. The organizations are the Intermountain Medical Group, a 600-physician group based in Salt Lake City, Utah; the 760-provider Oregon Health Sciences University Medical Group of Portland, Ore.; the 747-physician UC Davis Health System in Sacramento, Calif.; and the Talbert Merical Group, a 120-provider group based in Costa Mesa, Calif.
Keane to install EZ-Access Patcom at Mount Sinai
Keane, Inc. of San Ramon, Calif. has announced that it has been awarded a contract with Mount Sinai Hospital of Queens, part of the New York-based Mount Sinai Medical Center, to install EZ-Access Patcom and a host of new revenue cycle management and clinical applications to streamline the hospital’s operations and billing efforts. The installation will include Keane’s new Executive Dashboard, Enterprise Scheduling and Enterprise CyberQuery (eCQ) products, as well as Keane’s Data Repository.
BancTec, Pinnacle Financial sign 5-year agreement
BancTec, a Dallas-based provider of document and payment processing solutions, has signed a five-year agreement with Pinnacle Financial Partners, Inc. of Nashville, Tenn., through which Pinnacle will market BancTec’s RemitCycle 360 solution as an outsourced revenue cycle management offering to healthcare providers in the southeastern United States. “The RemitCycle 360 solution will be attractive to many of our healthcare clients because of its ability to automate the capture, transmittal and access to claims information, thus reducing claim-to-payment cycle times and administrative costs,” said David Sturdivant, treasury management group manager of Pinnacle Financial Partners.
Infor enhances HCM workforce management
Infor has enhanced its Infor HCM Workforce Management (previously Workbrain) to enable healthcare companies to better manage personnel resources. Among the enhancements in the Web-based products dashboard and analytical tools is Absence Management, a feature that automates the complete absence and leave process through a centralized system that can provide insight into the financial effects of absenteeism in the workplace.