YouDecide.com, Inc., a Duluth, Ga-based provider of voluntary employee benefit products and services and a division of the Vbenx Corporation, has acquired the RewardsPlus of America Insurance Agency, a subsidiary of RealLife HR. The purchase includes the agency's SureDeduct/SurePay technology, the company's single-slot payroll deduction technology.
Watertown, Mass.-based athenahealth, Inc. has announced that its national client base of thousands of medical providers will be fully compliant with the new National Provider Identifier (NPI) Final Rule, sponsored by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, slated to take effect May 23.
Benefit Informatics of Tulsa, Okla. has unveiled Verifier, a Web-based eligibility verification service that allows healthcare providers access to current member benefit and eligibility information directly from the payer via a secure Web site.
Thomson Healthcare has announced that St. Elizabeth Medical Center, a network of three hospitals in northern Kentucky, has decreased its billing cycle and increased revenue for procedures performed by hospital staff through the use of its MercuryMD Mobile Solution with Charge Capture.
SourceMedical, a provider of information management solutions for outpatient and diagnostic imaging centers, has announced the release and successful implementation of SourceRad V3, the company's third-generation RIS/PACS/Billing software, designed as the only Web-based RIS/PACS/Billing solution designed to run over the Internet without any network security requirements such as a VPN.
In response to unexpected submission changes announced by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for Medicare Part D participants, Seattle-based Zynchros, Inc. has enhanced its Zynchros.com platform to assist enrolled health plan sponsors and pharmacy benefits managers in achieving total compliance by the April 17 filing deadline. The Zynchros.com 2008 Reference Formulary File, complete with coding for the 2008 USP Model Formulary Guidelines, now enables automatic translation of the 2007 formularies for the new 2008 drug list through a user interface, minimizing the financial impact of the more than 2,000 changes announced by CMS on March 20.
Allscripts, a Chicago-based provider of clinical software, connectivity and information solutions for physicians, has announced that PriMed Physicians of Dayton, Ohio and Health First Physicians of Cincinnati will deploy TouchWorks Electronic Health Record and Practice Management to automate and connect clinical and administrative processes for their 80 physicians. The agreement was arranged by MediSync, a Cincinnati management services organization.