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Nextgen healthcare launches practice solutions NextGen Healthcare has launched NextGen Practice Solutions, a business division directed toward providing physician practices with revenue c...
Incentive model could save nation $368B, report says Investment in a healthcare incentive, decision-making and cost-effectiveness program could save the United States $368 billion over 10...
Contributed by Sen. Chuck Grassley HEALTHCARE REFORM has been elusive over the past two decades. Neither Congress nor the sitting president has been able to agree on ways to improve our hea...
SALT LAKE CITY, UT – Jim Pack, the CEO of AdvancedMD Software, Inc., figures that his company has never seen most of its customers. And that’s just fine with him. “...
TAX ISSUES ARE GAINING PROMINENCE for healthcare organizations regardless of their status with the Internal Revenue Service, and 2008 could prove to be a challenging year for hospital finan...
Surveys of specialties show revenue/cost variations Recent surveys by the Medical Group Management Association show physician group practices battling rising costs in cardiology and ort...
RETURN ON PATIENT DOLLARS is where all the money is for providers, according to Elizabeth Woodcock, a speaker, author and consultant. Insurance follow up on claims that are denied, however, is a huge...
WASHINGTON – Spending on hospital services could top $1 trillion in 2008, based on estimated growth in hospital charges between 1997 and 2005. Data also indicates that the growth i...
ORGANIZATIONS HOPING TO EXCHANGE health data within geographic regions are struggling to achieve their chief goals, and many are failing financially. Electronic clinical data exchange is...
Hospitalists reduce stays, have little impact on cost A recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that patients treated by hospitalists had slightly shorter le...