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By Chelsey Ledue | 01:00 am | July 21, 2008
ARLINGTON, VA – The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ competitive bidding program for durable medical equipment has “created concern and chaos for beneficiaries, physicians...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | July 21, 2008
ER Urgent Care Centers of Florida has announced that the company has reached an agreement, in principle, with a funding source to provide the capital needed to initiate the company’s plan...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | July 21, 2008
Two vendors of financial software for healthcare providers are joining forces to help physician practices improve their revenue cycle process, from insurance verification to reimbursement monitoring....
By Chelsey Ledue | 01:00 am | July 21, 2008
AHI Software, Inc., a provider of on-demand patient access management solutions, has launched an eligibility verification solution."Our Eligibility Verification solution provides accurat...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | July 21, 2008
WASHINGTON – The anticipated change from the ICD-9 Medicare physician and hospital billing code systems to ICD-10 could cost healthcare providers a hefty amount of money, effort and time and cou...
By Jack Beaudoin | 01:00 am | July 21, 2008
AUGUSTA, ME – A new national coalition of unions, community action groups, women's organizations and progressive think tanks kicked off a four-month blitz in July with a single aim – to fo...
By Chelsey Ledue | 01:00 am | July 21, 2008
ENGLEWOOD, CO – Colorado’s Senate has mandated that all carriers providing a health plan in that state will be required to issue standardized insurance cards by July 1, 2010, to all person...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | July 21, 2008
WASHINGTON - Physicians can rest easy for at least another year. On July 15, Congress approved the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 (H.R. 6331), passed July 9,...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | July 21, 2008
Two senators are trying to overcome a policy implemented last year to limit the number of people enrolled in the State Children's Health Insurance Program.Sens. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) and...
By Chelsey Ledue | 01:00 am | July 21, 2008
Electronic Data Systems' shareholders will request postponement of a July 31 shareholder meeting on the proposed sale of the company to Hewlett-Packard pending full disclosure and correction of defici...