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By Molly Merrill | 12:00 am | May 19, 2008
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services has inked a $179 million, seven-year contract with Unisys. The Blue Bell, Pa-based technology company will provide a new Medicaid Management Informati...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | May 19, 2008
Chesapeake System Solutions, Inc. of Owings Mills, Md. has released T-Recs (Total Reconciliation Solution) Enterprise, a financial governance solution designed to help healthcare providers the...
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | May 19, 2008
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services want to test whether an approach of bundling payment for both hospital and physician services will work.CMS last week outlined a planned de...
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | May 19, 2008
The American Medical Association is countering efforts calling for the increased regulation of specialty hospitals owned by physicians.Earlier this month, the hospital industry brought a unif...
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | May 16, 2008
The credit crunch appears to be affecting hospitals' ability to raise capital and finance capital expenditures, especially for big-ticket items.A research report issued in April by Wachovia C...
By Diana Manos | 12:00 am | May 16, 2008
A report released Thursday by the U.S. Government Accountability Office says nursing homes and the federal agency overseeing them are falling well short of the mark.The GAO study said federal...
By Molly Merrill | 12:00 am | May 15, 2008
National Health Partners, Inc., a provider of discount healthcare membership programs, and the Polish National Alliance, the largest ethnically-based fraternal insurance society in the United States,...
By Diana Manos | 12:00 am | May 15, 2008
A report released Tuesday by the Aberdeen Group puts more than 40 information technology vendors with healthcare products among the top 100 most influential technology companies over the past five yea...
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | May 15, 2008
A subsidiary of a large banking firm is introducing a new tool to its medical claims processing service intended to facilitate claims payment posting.JP Morgan Healthcare Solutions on Wednesd...
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | May 15, 2008
Provider organizations peppered a House small business committee during a Wednesday hearing with concerns about the Recovery Audit Contractor program.Witnesses provided their views on the progra...