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Residents of Buena Vista, Lamar, Leadville and Del Norte, Colo. are among the latest wave of communities nationwide that have recently gained access to innovative telehealth services.
CaroMont Health, Sg2 and GE Healthcare will work together on several initiatives aimed at tackling the rising costs of delivering healthcare, officials announced in June at ANI, the annual conference of the Healthcare Financial Management Association.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has announced $250 million in Affordable Care Act investments to support prevention activities and develop the nation's public health infrastructure.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will be the first federal agency to test a mapping and data analysis tool developed by a White House oversight board to spot irregularities in the flow of economic stimulus funds.
Executives from county safety net Natividad Medical Center in Monterey, California said they saved their hospital from closing. The hospital went from a $25 million loss to an $8 million gain in just four years, they said at a morning session of the Healthcare Financial Management Association's (HFMA) annual conference in Las Vegas on Monday.
The financial and quality pressures that come with healthcare reform and the conversion to ICD-10 are putting a lot of stress on coding accuracy and use of the information gathered, according to a Monday education session at the Healthcare Financial Management Association's ANI conference in Las Vegas.
Healthcare reform was on the mind of many healthcare finance executives gathered in Las Vegas Sunday for the start of the Healthcare Financial Management Association's annual ANI conference.
CIGNA and CareCentrix have partnered for a pilot program that aims to curtail the growing number of hospital readmissions, providing specialized home nursing services after patient discharge.
Starting an accountable care organization, or ACO, doesn't require a lot of initial capital, according to some experts.
SearchAmerica, a Minneapolis-based provider of financial clearing services for healthcare providers, has launched Collection Performance Advisor, an analytics-driven software platform that not only guides each account to the appropriate collection team or agency, but also monitors the performance of all collection resources and analyzes the hospital-wide results.