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Hospitals that look to third parties to collect overdue bills often struggle with maintaining oversight of collection agencies' activities.A new approach from Waltham, Mass.-based Connance I...

The SCIOinspire Corp., a Hartford, Conn.-based provider of healthcare cost-containment services, has acquired SOCRATES, INC., a provider of coordination of benefits (COB), subrogation...

Even as online job postings have declined over the last year, the effort to use the Web to fill healthcare jobs remains steady.Some 219,000 jobs for healthcare practitioners were listed onlin...

The Integrated Healthcare Association is planning to implement a statewide collection of comparative data, evaluate purchasing and payment systems and develop a new episode-based payment method for me...

A new study shows that healthcare is the largest private-sector employer in Michigan, boosting the state's economy by nearly $36.7 billion a year. The study also revealed that the state spent...

CONSIDER PAYER-PROVIDER CONTRACTS  to be microcosms of overall industry trends. As concepts like pay-for-performance and consumer-directed health plans gain traction in the healthcare environment...

Supply-CHAIN MANAGEMENT (SCM) for hospitals is undergoing a “substantial reinvention,” said Eugene Schneller, professor and director of Health Sector Supply Chain Management and Policy...

Faced with the prospect of declaring bankruptcy and after deciding to dump most of its overseas interests, Merge Healthcare, Inc. has agreed to a $20 million financing deal in an effort to shore up it...

The U.S. healthcare industry is expected to spend $55 billion on telecommunications over the next five years, according to a study released Friday by Insight Research Corporation. The use of...

SANTA ANA, CA - According to a report by the Grubb & Ellis Company, a real estate services and investment firm, the increasing demand for medical services by aging baby boomers will fuel demand fo...