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By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | October 03, 2008
The transition from standard healthcare plans to high-deductible health plans and their health savings accounts may look like a wide, unfamiliar chasm that employees are unwilling to cross –...
By Richard Pizzi | 01:00 am | October 02, 2008
Texas Health Resources, the largest healthcare system in North Texas, has been awarded a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant to help employers address the problems their employees may face due to fam...
By Bernie Monegain | 01:00 am | October 02, 2008
The Carolinas Healthcare System, a network that includes 23 hospitals throughout North and South Carolina, is rolling out technology to support its new telemonitoring program.The program is d...
By Richard Pizzi | 01:00 am | October 02, 2008
The National Institutes of Health, a branch of the Department of Health & Human Services, has awarded a $19 million contract for regulatory affairs support to the Science Applications Internationa...
By Jeff Marion | 01:00 am | October 02, 2008
National Surgical Hospitals announced the opening of its 13th hospital, the Colorado Orthopedic and Surgical Hospital, in Denver.The hospital is a joint venture between NSH - an owner, operat...
By Chelsey Ledue | 01:00 am | October 02, 2008
Humana will assist the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in providing access to health and prescription benefits for about 16,000 Medicare members of the MD Medicare Choice (MDMC) plan in 23...
By Chelsey Ledue | 01:00 am | October 01, 2008
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is now publishing most of the edits used in its Medically Unlikely Edit (MUE) program to improve the accuracy of claims payments."It is alw...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | October 01, 2008
In a sign that Royal Philips Electronics may be refining its healthcare division, Nuance Communications has announced that it has acquired the Dutch electronic giant's Speech Recognition Systems busin...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | October 01, 2008
The QuadraMed Corporation is adding business intelligence tools to its hospital registration software through InterSystems' newly launched DeepSee technology.InterSystems, based in Cambridge, Ma...
By Richard Pizzi | 01:00 am | October 01, 2008
According to a study published in the latest issue of the [italics] Journal of the Ame...