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By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | August 18, 2008
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey is considering converting to a for-profit company.The not-for-profit health service corporation filed an application for conversion with the state...
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | August 15, 2008
As information is digitized in healthcare, there's greater risk in the transmission and storage of confidential medical and financial information.To cover these risks, Premier Insurance Manag...
By Molly Merrill | 12:00 am | August 15, 2008
The Amerigroup Corporation, a Virginia Beach, Va.-based health insurer, will pay $225 million to settle fraud allegations against the Illinois Medicaid program.Amerigroup and its Illinois sub...
By Chelsey Ledue | 12:00 am | August 15, 2008
As Medicare's Part D prescription drug program enters its fourth year, government officials say the program has been a success. "Measured by enrollment, lower costs than originally expec...
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | August 15, 2008
An electronic exchange specializing in healthcare and a provider of payment processing solutions and services say they are teaming up in efforts to speed the invoice-to-payment process for hospitals....
By Diana Manos | 12:00 am | August 15, 2008
The Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC), an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, announced Friday the completion of its merger with MEDecision, a Wayne, pa.-based pro...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | August 14, 2008
Hospital patients looking for an easier way to plan out their payments - and hospitals looking for a better way to collect them - might benefit from a recently announced partnership between two provid...
By Molly Merrill | 12:00 am | August 14, 2008
A recent survey suggests that many Americans have cut back on medical care spending to save money. The National Association of Insurance Commissioners, a voluntary organization based in Kansa...
By Richard Pizzi | 12:00 am | August 14, 2008
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced Thursday that all physician groups participating in the Physician Group Practice Demonstration have earned $16.7 million in incentive payment...
By Bernie Monegain | 12:00 am | August 14, 2008
URAC has approved revisions to nine of its healthcare management accreditation programs. The standards require the use of national quality measures and stress greater efficiency in the healthcare syst...