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By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | March 28, 2008
IF YOU LISTEN LONG ENOUGH, you’re bound to hear stories of consumers totally confounded by how things work in healthcare. This is one of those stories. It’s based on a colum...
By Chelsey Ledue | 12:00 am | March 28, 2008
MIDDLETOWN, CT – Middlesex Professional Services has reported a 700 percent return on investment in the first year by using DocSite solutions. MPS implemented DocSite’s Regi...
By Patty Enrado | 12:00 am | March 28, 2008
BOSTON – The announcement that Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts has decided against requiring physicians to implement electronic medical records to participate in its bonus program create...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | March 28, 2008
ARMONK, NY – The only way that hospitals and other healthcare providers are going to rein in costs is if they learn from past practices and fine-tune the processes. That’...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | March 28, 2008
ORLANDO, FL – Spurred by a multi-million-dollar investment from the Center for Community Health Leadership, healthcare providers in New Haven, Conn. and Tampa, Fla. are taking the first steps to...
By E. Todd Truitt | 12:00 am | March 28, 2008
NOW MORE THAN EVER, institutional investors are being urged to allocate funds to alternative investments. The conventional wisdom is that this kind of portfolio diversification will improve future ret...
By John Andrews | 12:00 am | March 28, 2008
WHEN IT COMES TO financial and administrative workflow, hospital operations specialists say the key to success lies in understanding how machinery – both literal and figurative – can optim...
By Chelsey Ledue | 12:00 am | March 28, 2008
Amedisys, a home nursing company, has completed the acquisition of TLC Health Care Services, a provider of home nursing and hospice services. The $395 million deal, which closed We...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | March 28, 2008
Letter, ad campaign seek to reverse planned cuts Congressional budget committee leaders are under pressure to reject budget cuts in Medicare and Medicaid expenditures proposed by the B...
By Diana Manos | 12:00 am | March 28, 2008
A new study has found that consumers are slow to adopt consumer-directed health plans (CDHPs), though supporters claim interest will grow. CDHPs are typically compri...