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By Diana Manos | 12:00 am | January 31, 2008
Rapidly rising healthcare costs are not simply a federal budget problem - they are America's number one fiscal challenge, according to David M. Walker, Comptroller General of the United States....
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | January 31, 2008
 A task force on healthcare in Colorado is expected to present its recommendations for reforming healthcare in the state today. The state's 27-member Blue Ribbon Task Force...
By Chelsey Ledue | 12:00 am | January 30, 2008
The U.S. Department of Justice has announced its collaboration with three whistleblowers in two lawsuits against three New Jersey hospitals. The lawsuits allege that Robert Wood Johnson...
By Molly Merrill | 12:00 am | January 30, 2008
EMH Regional Healthcare System will address its bad debt using TransUnion's Healthcare Revenue Cycle Platform, designed to help the Ohio hospital system streamline its registration and collection proc...
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | January 30, 2008
A study released in Alabama questions whether the state should have a certificate-of-need process to control the number of healthcare facilities. The study, by the Alabama Po...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | January 29, 2008
SALT LAKE CITY – Officials at AdvancedMD, which provides practice management and medical billing software for physicians, figure they’ve doubled in size and profits each year for the past...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | January 29, 2008
Hyland, VHA sign deal to expand OnBase network Hyland Software, the Cleveland-based developer of the OnBase enterprise document management software suite, has signed an agreement with the...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | January 29, 2008
Aetna PUTS patient safety language into contracts Aetna, of Hartford, Conn., has incorporated language from the Leapfrog Group’s “Never Events” policy in its hospital co...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | January 29, 2008
TWO HEALTHCARE IT GIANTS have announced a strategic alliance to help state governments with their Medicaid Management Information Systems (MMIS). Ingenix, based in Eden Prairie, Minn., is j...
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | January 29, 2008
A state senate committee soundly defeated a move to advance a proposal for healthcare reform to the state's senate for a full vote. The Senate Health Committee voted 10-1 to halt the progre...