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Mary Geegan Middleton, Executive Director, Cassopolis Family Clinic, Cassopolis, Mich., 2 locales, 8 providers
With health reform in the works, the importance of community health centers is growing, according to the authors of a study recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
A new study by the California HealthCare Foundation says large, well-organized multi-specialty practices are poised to take healthcare costs and quality to a new level through accountable care organizations.
Experts say healthcare organizations face more than 60 major regulatory deadlines over the next ten years. The 2010 Healthcare Financial Management Association's (HFMA) ANI Healthcare Finance Conference, to be held June 20-23, 2010 in Las Vegas, promises to address a host of them.
HFMA will present the following 10 hospitals with the MAP Award for High Performance in Revenue Cycle during ANI.
Glenn Steele, president and CEO of the Geisinger Health System in Danville, Pa., will deliver a keynote address on the subject of physician integration at the Healthcare Financial Management Association’s 2010 ANI conference. He spoke recently with Healthcare Finance News Editor Richard Pizzi about some of the factors involved in achieving true integration.
The goal of one of this year’s HFMA ANI sessions is to “get practices to think a little bit differently when trying to reduce costs.”
MedAssets, based in Atlanta, has announced that it will provide its spend management solutions to RehabCare, a St. Louis-based national provider of long-term acute care and rehabilitation services. The company has also put out the call for nominations for its ninth annual Technology & Innovation Forum.
A new law in Pennsylvania will allow more patients to collaborate with pharmacists on their medication programs, which is expected to improve health and save money.
Two hospitals and a heart device manufacturer have paid nearly $4 million to the federal government over charges the manufacturer paid kickbacks to the hospitals to secure business.