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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 Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | March 28, 2008
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center wants to improve coding and billing management and ease the administrative workload of its nurses.  Two new service modules offered by MedAptus...
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 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 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 Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | March 27, 2008
PSS World Medical has announced that it has sold a portion of its shares of athenahealth, Inc., a Watertown, Mass.-based provider of Internet-based IT and business management services to physician pra...
By Molly Merrill | 12:00 am | March 27, 2008
According to a new survey, employers in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio believe that worksite wellness programs are better than high-deductible health plans for managing healthcare costs....
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | March 27, 2008
WASHINGTON – A rare admission by the federal government that there are legitimate concerns surrounding a prescription pricing approach is a first step to resolving a lawsuit by groups representi...
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | March 27, 2008
A LAWSUIT FILED in March against the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services seeks to stop the federal agency from implementing a regulation that would restrict how states fund Medicaid programs and...
By Diana Manos | 12:00 am | March 27, 2008
MARCH MARKED the five-year anniversary of the "shock and awe" beginning of our War in Iraq, and all over D.C., the country – and for that matter, the world – there was discussion of i...