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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Convergys Corporation will acquire Dallas-based Intervoice, Inc. for $335 million in cash or $8.25 per share. The acquisition will expand Cincinnati-based Convergys' automated and live agent offer...
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...
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...
Estimated to be a $700 million project, Kaiser Permanente plans to open a new, energy-efficient hospital on its Fontana Medical Center campus in Southern California by the fall of 2013. The s...
Transylvania Community Hospital, a 94-bed not-for-profit hospital located in Brevard, N.C., is using a three-year, $540,000 federal grant to install an electronic medical record to communicate with lo...