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By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | April 15, 2008
The pressure will rise for hospitals to provide high-quality care and reduce mistakes, as Medicare seeks to tie reimbursement to quality.The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is an...
By Chelsey Ledue | 12:00 am | April 15, 2008
A new Web resource that allows users to learn, share and adopt innovations in the delivery of healthcare services is expected to help hospitals save money in the education process of best practices -...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | April 14, 2008
CardWorks Servicing, LLC of Woodbury, N.Y. has been selected to service the new HumanaAdvance Visa Card. The company will partner with E-Duction, Inc., a provider of employment-based pay...
By Molly Merrill | 12:00 am | April 14, 2008
Aria Systems, a provider of on-demand transaction and customer management solutions, is teaming up with Rackspace, a global provider of hosted IT services, to provide on-demand billing for the Service...
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | April 14, 2008
Stakes for control of labor organizing in healthcare organizations grew exponentially Saturday after a confrontation between members of two union groups in Dearborn, Mich....
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | April 11, 2008
A survey of healthcare consumers finds an increasing gap in perceptions of security among those who have health coverage and those who don't. The second annual Health Security I...
By Molly Merrill | 12:00 am | April 11, 2008
Global private equity firm Apax Partners has acquired the TriZetto Group, Inc. for $1.4 billion and plans to take it private. Under the terms of the agreement, Apax wil...
By Diana Manos | 12:00 am | April 11, 2008
Lawmakers came one step closer this week to blocking an estimated $20 billion in Medicaid cuts proposed by the Department of Health and Human Services. The House...
By Richard Pizzi | 12:00 am | April 10, 2008
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care has signed a $1 billion deal with Perot Systems Corp. for information technology and business process services through 2021. Represent...
By Chelsey Ledue | 12:00 am | April 10, 2008
The Medicaid Dental Center, a privately owned chain of dental clinics in North Carolina formerly known as Smile Starters and Carolina Dental Center, will pay more than $10 million to resolve allegatio...