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By Eric Wicklund | 10:00 am | April 04, 2011
MedAssets, based in Atlanta, has announced that The Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha will deploy the company's strategic sourcing and group purchasing, medical device and clinical consulting services for physician preference items, as well as the company's pharmacy consulting services.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 09:33 am | April 04, 2011
The Arizona House approved a measure to restore Medicaid funding for organ transplants and the state Senate was expected to also approve the measure. Governor Jan Brewer took heavy criticism for cutting the money from the sate budget late last year, as the state grappled with a crushing budget deficit.
By Chris Anderson | 12:03 pm | April 01, 2011
Palmetto Physician Connections, a new government-sponsored health plan, is launching a medical home care model as it looks to build its managed care business with South Carolina's Healthy Connections Choices Medicaid program.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 10:51 am | April 01, 2011
Merger and acquisition activity in the health care industry's service sectors burgeoned in 2010 as the impact of the credit crunch and Great Recession on the economy began to fade says the seventeenth edition of Irving Levin Associates' "The Health Care Services Acquisition Report."
By Stephanie Bouchard | 10:17 am | April 01, 2011
The House Energy and Commerce Committee is seeking feedback from 51 medical associations on how to fix the Sustainable Growth Rate - the formula used by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to control Medicare payments to physicians.
By Diana Manos | 04:04 pm | March 31, 2011
The new proposed regulations on accountable care organizations, released Thursday by the Department of Health and Human Services, launch one of the first delivery-reform initiatives to be implemented under the Accountable Care Act.
By Chris Anderson | 12:02 pm | March 31, 2011
Florida's Senate Health Regulation Committee unanimously approved a bill yesterday that would shift the bulk of the state's Medicaid recipients into HMOs and other types of managed-care organizations.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:02 pm | March 31, 2011
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is releasing regulations today on accountable care organizations (ACOs).
By Diana Manos | 12:02 pm | March 31, 2011
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released regulations today on accountable care organizations (ACOs). The rules will guide provider organizations in setting up exchanges of healthcare data to improve care and reduce costs, as mandated under the Affordable Care Act.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 11:03 am | March 31, 2011
The HIMSS Medical Banking Project G7 Roundtable, a specialized think-tank of healthcare stakeholders, has released two new reports on accountable care organizations and real time adjudication of claims.