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By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | May 13, 2008
Merge Healthcare, Inc., a West Allis, Wis.-based developer of medical imaging and clinical software applications, is dumping its overseas subsidiaries after posting another loss during the first quart...
By Chelsey Ledue | 12:00 am | May 12, 2008
DataPath, based in Little Rock, Ark., and Atlanta-based RelayHealth have formed a "strategic relationship" to establish a connectivity service designed to streamline the payment cycle and da...
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | May 12, 2008
In an unusual move, the Federal Trade Commission is taking steps to block the proposed acquisition of Prince William Health System, Inc. by the Inova Health System Foundation.The FTC voted unanimou...
By Molly Merrill | 12:00 am | May 12, 2008
McKesson has launched a Medication Therapy Management pilot program with the Wisconsin Pharmacy Quality Collaborative, a multi-organizational initiative led by the Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin, to st...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | May 12, 2008
The TriZetto Group, Inc. of Newport Beach, Calif. has unveiled Constituent Web Solutions, a suite of software applications designed to provide health plans with advanced, Web-based services to...
By Molly Merrill | 12:00 am | May 09, 2008
St. Francis Hospital & Health Center was preparing to close its doors, until MSMC Investors LLC stepped forward with a proposition to acquire the hospital.SSM Health Care, which owns and...
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | May 09, 2008
WASHINGTON – Selling tactics aimed at getting senior citizens to buy Medicare private plans came under attack last month in a Congressional hearing investigating how sales personnel were handlin...
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | May 09, 2008
Responding to evidence that beneficiaries need protection from predatory marketing practices, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Thursday toughened standards for selling Medicare Advant...
By Molly Merrill | 12:00 am | May 09, 2008
Prime Healthcare Services, Inc., a hospital management company in southern California, has taken measures to implement public inpatient and outpatient regulatory reporting requirements in nine of its...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | May 08, 2008
HOUSTON – The processes of coding and charge capture are often complicated, time-consuming, paper-intensive tasks more suited to administrators than clinicians. To make those tasks easi...