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By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | December 15, 2006
MphasiS Healthcare Solutions, a health benefit management and business process outsourcing services vendor, has announced the release of CDHpac, a tool for health benefits management...
By Chip Means | 12:00 am | December 14, 2006
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' plan to increase payments to physicians who spend more time talking with their Medicare patients may be viewed in a different light due to the deferral...
By Chip Means | 12:00 am | December 11, 2006
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has begun to hire new Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) in an effort to improve efficiency, customer service and financial management within Med...
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | December 11, 2006
The interest has always been there, of course, because healthcare organizations have faced delays in receiving payments that could be measured in months. Uncertainty surrounds most...
By Chip Means | 12:00 am | December 11, 2006
Consumer response to the accessibility of pricing and investment information will help determine the effect of increased financial transparency on providers. President George Bush iss...
By Diana Manos | 12:00 am | December 11, 2006
According to a new study commissioned by the Department of Health and Human Services, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, more than half of the nation's HMOs used pay-for-performance programs...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | December 08, 2006
GE Healthcare of Barrington, Ill. has announced that Children’s Hospital & Research Center Oakland has selected Centricity Business Advantage, a fully outsourced revenue cycle m...
By Patty Enrado | 12:00 am | December 07, 2006
Charity Care Solutions TransUnion Healthcare Revenue Cycle Platform The TransUnion Healthcare Revenue Cycle Platform (HRCP),...
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | December 07, 2006
In action just before the 109th Session of Congress ended, both houses passed bipartisan legislation addressing a number of end-of-session concerns, including the implementation of a quality reporting...
By Patty Enrado | 12:00 am | December 07, 2006
Two out of every three hospitals in Illinois lose money on core patient services, while one out of three hospitals loses money on its operating margin and only 2.1 percent have an average operating ma...