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By Molly Merrill | 12:00 am | July 17, 2008
The Minnesota Bridges to Excellence program will recognize 104 clinics from 22 medical groups in Minnesota, western Wisconsin and North Dakota by paying physicians cash bonuses for meeting diabetes an...
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | July 17, 2008
BOONE, NC – While they’re not doing the dollar volume of their big-city brethren, small hospitals in rural settings face unique financial pressures and must manage all aspects of the reven...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | July 17, 2008
LAS VEGAS – McKesson officials have unveiled a new revenue management platform designed to help healthcare providers consolidate their old legacy and bolted-on systems.Released during t...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | July 17, 2008
McKesson is adding a financial aspect to its emergency care solutions with the purchase of EN-Chart Scanning Program, LLC, a Dandridge, Tenn.-based provider of coding and charge-capture capabilities f...
By Diana Manos | 12:00 am | July 17, 2008
The Department of Health and Human Services has levied a $100,000 fine on Seattle-based Providence Health and Services for alleged violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act...
By Chelsey Ledue | 12:00 am | July 17, 2008
The Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative has released The Purchaser Guide to the Patient-Centered Medical Home, a handbook for understanding the medical home model.The PCPCC is...
By Molly Merrill | 12:00 am | July 17, 2008
According to the 2008 National Scorecard on U.S. Health System performance, America's health system continues to fall short of its healthcare goals regardless of resources invested. The score...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | July 16, 2008
Healthvision is setting its sights on the Canadian market with the acquisition of MediSolution, Ltd.'s healthcare unit.In a deal announced Wednesday, the Dallas-based provider of healthcare I...
By Diana Manos | 12:00 am | July 16, 2008
Physicians can rest easy for at least another year. In a Tuesday night vote, Congress easily cleared the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 (H.R. 6331) with enough v...
By Chelsey Ledue | 12:00 am | July 16, 2008
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has doled out more than $36 million in bonus payments to many of the approximately 56,700 health professionals who satisfactorily reported quality inform...