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WALTHAM, MA – Revenue cycle executives for healthcare organizations are focusing most of their attention on improving patient collections, according to a recent survey of finance executives....
ENGLEWOOD, CO – Colorado’s Senate has mandated that all carriers providing a health plan in that state will be required to issue standardized insurance cards by July 1, 2010, to all person...
ARLINGTON, VA – The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ competitive bidding program for durable medical equipment has “created concern and chaos for beneficiaries, physicians...
Electronic Data Systems' shareholders will request postponement of a July 31 shareholder meeting on the proposed sale of the company to Hewlett-Packard pending full disclosure and correction of defici...
Two vendors of financial software for healthcare providers are joining forces to help physician practices improve their revenue cycle process, from insurance verification to reimbursement monitoring....
PHYSICIANS MAY have gained a small reprieve with the passage of the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act in July. The bill, if it remains veto-proof as expected, would halt the 10.6 pe...
WASHINGTON – The anticipated change from the ICD-9 Medicare physician and hospital billing code systems to ICD-10 could cost healthcare providers a hefty amount of money, effort and time and cou...
The Senate Finance Committee held its fourth in a series of hearings Thursday to prepare for Congressional action on health reform.The latest hearing examined how health information technolog...
The U.S. Biovigilance Network has raised more than $1 million for a nationwide data collection program for the transfusion and biological therapy communities. The program will collect and ana...
A study conducted by the Health Research and Educational Trust (HRET) has found hospitals have made strides in improving quality of care over the past two years, with they still have a long way to go....