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What with Texas not partaking in Super Tuesday this time around, the primary in Ohio is considered paramount to GOP candidates -- and the Buckeye State is where Rick Santorum has hit Mitt Romney hardest on healthcare thus far.
Since joining the Premier healthcare alliance last year, Edward Hospital & Health Services has saved $3.5 million while improving clinical quality and patient safety.
Home-based care management company Univita Health has acquired HME and DME provider All-Med Services of Florida, in a deal that adds more than 1 million patient lives to Univita's book of business.
Healthcare provider systems are enduring more financial challenges than ever with lower Medicare reimbursement on the horizon, accountable care organization and pay-for-performance initiatives. In essence, provider revenues are shrinking while costs are growing, so it makes sense that they are relying on group purchasing organizations more than ever.
Don Rodden, president of the Healthcare Billing and Management Association, spoke recently with Healthcare Finance News Editor René Letourneau about the major billing issues currently confronting providers.
Three years ago, Montefiore Medical Center in Bronx, N.Y., set out to overhaul its revenue cycle by increasing productivity and payment rates and reducing denials.
Jon Krieger, managing director at investment bank Berkery Noyes, managed healthcare IT firm Healthx's majority recapitalization, which the company undertook in preparation for the swift market growth it anticipates. He spoke recently with Healthcare Finance News Editor René Letourneau about the transaction and its implications for the mergers and acquisitions market.
What is keeping biomedical CEOs up at night in California? According to a new survey, it's lack of capital and stringent FDA regulations that threaten to stunt the growth of the industry.
What exactly does it cost to do business? The question dogs healthcare finance professionals. The answer – or at least the medical device supply-chain piece of it – is within reach, according to a new case study on the use of the Perfect Order metric and GS1 bar code standards.
A report published last month in the journal Health Affairs showed that 94.2 percent of the non-elderly population in Massachusetts had health insurance, a significant increase from the 86.6 percent who were insured prior to the state's health reforms.