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By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | September 29, 2008
Misys has secured sufficient funding requirements to satisfy the terms of an upcoming merger of its Raleigh, N.C.-based healthcare unit with Allscripts.Officials of the London-based banking a...
By Richard Pizzi | 12:00 am | September 29, 2008
The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced last week its approval of the first new hospital accreditation organization in more than 30 years.The decision allows DNV Healt...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | September 29, 2008
Henry Schein Medical Systems, a Boardman, Ohio-based provider of practice management (PM) and electronic medical records (EMR) systems, has announced that Advanced Medical Management of Baltimo...
By Richard Pizzi | 12:00 am | September 29, 2008
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has scheduled a series of national provider calls that will offer an overview of ICD-10 and how it differs from ICD-9-CM.The presentations will...
By Richard Pizzi | 12:00 am | September 29, 2008
Congress has approved $20 million for a new lung cancer research program at the Department of Defense. The program, entitled the Peer Reviewed Lung Cancer Research Program, will be administered and fu...
By Richard Pizzi | 12:00 am | September 26, 2008
Managed care tactics are changing these days and healthcare institutions need to be vigilant when dealing with denied claims, said an industry expert at the Maine Chapter of the Healthcare Financial M...
By Jeff Marion | 12:00 am | September 26, 2008
The winning projects were chosen from 184 funding applications submitted by state and local health departments. Only the 62 state, local and territorial public health departments currently receiving f...
By Diana Manos | 12:00 am | September 26, 2008
Premiums for employer-sponsored health insurance rose to $12,680 annually for family coverage this year Ð up 5 percent from last year, according to an annual study released Sept. 23 by the Kaiser...
By Richard Pizzi | 12:00 am | September 26, 2008
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Acting Administrator Kerry Weems announced the 2009 Medicare prescription drug and Medicare Advantage plan options Thursday.Weems said 97 percent...
By Jeff Marion | 12:00 am | September 25, 2008
Riverside Health System, based in Newport News, Va., will contribute $1 million to fund a health insurance program covering 1,500 to 2,000 low income, small business employees.About 15 percen...