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By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | November 19, 2008
President-elect Barack Obama has nominated former Sen. Tom Daschle(D-S.D.) to be the next Secretary of Health and Human Services,according to Capitol Hill sources.The Obama transition team ha...
By Richard Pizzi | 12:00 am | November 18, 2008
Methodist Mansfield Medical Center, located just south of the Dallas/Fort Worth metro area in Mansfield, Texas, has embarked on a $34 million expansion project.International architectural fir...
By Bernie Monegain | 12:00 am | November 18, 2008
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Vermont, the largest health insurer in the stare, has saved nearly a half-million dollars by employing compensation management technology.BCBSVT employed VUE Com...
By Richard Pizzi | 12:00 am | November 18, 2008
Healthcare is so expensive in the United States because we don't reimburse doctors and hospitals intelligently, according to a new report by the nonprofit Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement....
By Chelsey Ledue | 12:00 am | November 18, 2008
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has reportedly saving taxpayers approximately $400 million by reducing improper payments in Medicare fee-for-service programs.According to the...
By Richard Pizzi | 12:00 am | November 17, 2008
South Carolina's Department of Health and Environmental Control will likely close some of its rural health clinics due to the state's budget woes.According to reports from The State of...
By Chelsey Ledue | 12:00 am | November 17, 2008
Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt has released the second report from his initiative on personalized healthcare, examining the potential for new findings in genetics and other molecu...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | November 17, 2008
Healthation, a Darien, Ill.-based provider of claims management technology, has signed an agreement with Core V Solutions, Inc., a licensed third-party administrator and insurance agency based...
By Richard Pizzi | 12:00 am | November 17, 2008
Beginning in 2010, Medicare Advantage special needs plans that serve Medicare beneficiaries with chronic conditions must meet new guidelines issued last week by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...
By Richard Pizzi | 12:00 am | November 14, 2008
New York Gov. David Paterson has proposed $1.8 billion in cuts to Medicaid and other healthcare spending over the next two years.The proposed cuts are part of Paterson's deficit reduction pla...