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By Bernie Monegain, Contributing Editor, and Fred Bazzoli, Editor A six-month government investigation has led to charges that a company with an extensive database of healthcare bi...

CHARLESTON, SC – As more and more Americans adopt a “do-it-yourself” attitude toward the healthcare market, providers are realizing that they can’t sit back and wait for the bu...

With provider billing already incredibly complex, when you throw in consumer-directed healthcare and the cost shift to consumers, managing accounts receivable has become...

IT  SEEMS  MOST EVERYONE is willing to talk about the 800-pound gorilla known as U.S. healthcare spending. But who will really step up and dare to move it? That will likely be the question o...

Healthcare expenditures outpace inflation, GDP Health expenditures are still rising faster than the rate of inflation, and that rate of increase is expected to remain steady for the n...

CHICAGO – Allscripts is teaming up with a Hawaii-based physician management services organization on a new product designed to ease pay-for-performance reporting guidelines for physicians....

A RECENT SURVEY using data from 2006 suggests that physician-owned practices are closing the gap with hospital- and integrated system-owned (IDS) practices with regard to salary compensation....

CHICAGO – The American Medical Association continues to come out swinging against the latest step in the consolidation in the health insurance market. The Chicago-based professiona...

BETHESDA, MD – Hospitals looking to make their patients a little happier while tapping into an overlooked revenue stream might be interested in a new partnership between GetWellNetwork, Inc. and...

Despite the promise of a value-based purchasing approach for paying the nation's hospitals, the nation still has a ways to go in designing a system that is accurate and effective....