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By Patty Enrado | 01:00 am | July 30, 2008
PEORIA, IL – Since 2002, Caterpillar has kept its medical inflation rate to below 2 percent while recently reporting positive employee health outcomes.The global manufacturer’s su...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | July 30, 2008
The Medical Banking Project and the Automotive Industry Action Group are renewing commitments to work together on a variety of projects intended to involve banks in the healthcare industry.Th...
By Molly Merrill | 01:00 am | July 30, 2008
The City of New Orleans Emergency Medical Services agency has signed a $4 million contract with Affiliated Computer Services for an electronic patient records capture system. Under terms of t...
By Molly Merrill | 01:00 am | July 29, 2008
Potentially preventable medical errors that occur during or after surgery may cost employers nearly $1.5 billion a year, according to new estimates by the Department of Health and Human Services' Agen...
By Molly Merrill | 01:00 am | July 29, 2008
GE Healthcare Financial Services has signed a $75 million deal to provide a senior secured credit facility to The Schumacher Group, an emergency medicine management firm based in Lafayette, La....
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | July 29, 2008
A Houston-based provider of electronic medical records software designed specifically for mental and behavioral health providers is adding electronic claims processing to its platform.Eulogix...
By Chelsey Ledue | 01:00 am | July 29, 2008
Fogarty International Center, the global arm of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has launched a $1.5 million-a-year grant program to fund domestic and overseas training of researchers to fight...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | July 28, 2008
MphasiS Healthcare Solutions/Eldorado of Phoenix has announced a partnership with NavigatorMD to use claims data from HEALTHpac and Javelina to improve health plan design and management....
By Molly Merrill | 01:00 am | July 28, 2008
The Aecon Group, Inc., Canada's largest publicly traded construction and infrastructure development company, has completed negotiations for the renovation and expansion of Toronto Rehabilitation Insti...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | July 28, 2008
Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, plans to introduce legislation this week designed to expose physicians who overuse self-referred imaging services under...