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By Molly Merrill | 12:00 am | July 22, 2008
To assist small to medium-sized practices and community health centers in Georgia and South Carolina, electronic health record provider Sevocity will offer up to $100,000 in grants to spur clinics in...
By Chelsey Ledue | 12:00 am | July 22, 2008
WASHINGTON – The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has proposed new efforts to promote access to higher-quality and more efficient healthcare for Medicare beneficiaries under the 2009 M...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | July 21, 2008
ER Urgent Care Centers of Florida has announced that the company has reached an agreement, in principle, with a funding source to provide the capital needed to initiate the company’s plan...
By Chelsey Ledue | 12:00 am | July 21, 2008
ARLINGTON, VA – The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ competitive bidding program for durable medical equipment has “created concern and chaos for beneficiaries, physicians...
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | July 21, 2008
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....
By Diana Manos | 12:00 am | July 21, 2008
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...
By Chelsey Ledue | 12:00 am | July 21, 2008
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...
By Diana Manos | 12:00 am | July 21, 2008
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...
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | July 21, 2008
Two senators are trying to overcome a policy implemented last year to limit the number of people enrolled in the State Children's Health Insurance Program.Sens. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) and...
By Chelsey Ledue | 12:00 am | July 21, 2008
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...