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By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | July 23, 2008
DALLAS – Healthvision is setting its sights on the Canadian market with the acquisition of MediSolution, Ltd.’s healthcare unit.In a deal announced July 16, the Dallas-based provi...
By Patty Enrado | 12:00 am | July 23, 2008
According to a recent report released by PricewaterhouseCoopers' Health Research Institute, medical cost trends in the private sector will drop from 9.9 percent in 2008 to 9.6 p...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | July 23, 2008
WAYNE, PA – The way David St. Clair sees it, MEDecision’s merger agreement with the Health Care Service Corporation, announced in June, couldn’t have come at a better time.T...
By Patty Enrado | 12:00 am | July 23, 2008
TAMPA, FL – According to the Centers for Disease Control, an estimated $75 billion in direct medical expenditures was attributable to obesity in 2003, and annual hospital costs related to overwe...
By Molly Merrill | 12:00 am | July 22, 2008
New research reveals that healthcare executives place a higher priority on energy efficiency than other industry executives and are more likely to expect to make improvements over the next year....
By Chelsey Ledue | 12:00 am | July 22, 2008
AUGUSTA, ME –Maine’s Dirigo Health Association has estimated savings of $190.2 million in 2007 – but associations around the state are disputing the DHA’s healthcare premium ta...
By Darrell Pruitt | 12:00 am | July 22, 2008
I found your article “Mixed results as NPI deadline passes” informative.I have a unique perspective of the NPI issue.  As a dentist who has no contracts with any insurance compa...
By Joseph C. Kvedar | 12:00 am | July 22, 2008
Most health economists would agree with the truism that about 5 percent of patients in a given populations account for about 50 percent of costs. There are a number of variations on this hyperbolic Pa...
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | July 22, 2008
MENLO PARK, CA – As hospitals move to invest money in radio frequency identification applications, they’re finding they need increased capital investments to enable the tracking technology...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | July 22, 2008
Medical practices stress over EMR conversionSelecting and implementing an electronic health record system is among the top concerns physician practice managers list in a new survey by the...