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By Molly Merrill | 01:00 am | July 22, 2008
To assist small to medium-sized practices and community health centers in Georgia and South Carolina, electronic health record provider Sevocity will offer up to $100,000 in grants to spur clinics in...
By Molly Merrill | 01:00 am | July 22, 2008
CHICAGO – In an effort to boost transparency, the American Medical Association has released an insurer report card that lays bare the differences among seven national health insurers when it com...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | July 22, 2008
THE CENTERS for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released a massive proposed rule to update its approach for paying for hospital outpatient and ambulatory surgery center services.Under the r...
By Molly Merrill | 01:00 am | July 22, 2008
New research reveals that healthcare executives place a higher priority on energy efficiency than other industry executives and are more likely to expect to make improvements over the next year....
By Bernie Monegain | 01:00 am | July 22, 2008
The Premier healthcare alliance, which lists 2,000 hospitals across the country as members, says quality reporting that requires proprietary information, tools or methodology is too expensive and s...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | July 22, 2008
MENLO PARK, CA – As hospitals move to invest money in radio frequency identification applications, they’re finding they need increased capital investments to enable the tracking technology...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | July 22, 2008
TALLAHASSEE, FL – Florida hospitals will be facing more public scrutiny as the state becomes the first in the country to publish data on readmissions that could be potentially prevented....
By Darrell Pruitt | 01:00 am | July 22, 2008
I found your article “Mixed results as NPI deadline passes” informative.I have a unique perspective of the NPI issue.  As a dentist who has no contracts with any insurance compa...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | July 22, 2008
I’VE GOT SOME ‘60s music blaring in the background as I write this. I’m having a nostalgia moment.For a brief spell in mid-July, I was having flashbacks to my youth in Chica...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | July 22, 2008
Report: CMS needs better oversight of programsThe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services needs to do a better job monitoring the billions of dollars it provides in supplemental payme...