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By John Andrews | 01:00 am | March 28, 2008
WHEN IT COMES TO financial and administrative workflow, hospital operations specialists say the key to success lies in understanding how machinery – both literal and figurative – can optim...
By Chelsey Ledue | 01:00 am | March 28, 2008
ENGLEWOOD, CO – Physician practices are responding to the uncertain reimbursement environment and the failure of Medicare physician payments to keep pace with the cost of delivering care, accord...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | March 28, 2008
ATLANTA – The Eclipsys Corporation has added some strength to the ‘Outcomes’ portion of its ‘The Outcomes Company’ moniker with the purchase of Enterprise Performance Sys...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | March 28, 2008
Letter, ad campaign seek to reverse planned cuts Congressional budget committee leaders are under pressure to reject budget cuts in Medicare and Medicaid expenditures proposed by the B...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | March 28, 2008
ARMONK, NY – The only way that hospitals and other healthcare providers are going to rein in costs is if they learn from past practices and fine-tune the processes. That’...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | March 28, 2008
GREENVILLE, SC – Emergency departments – gotta have ‘em, and gotta lose big money in the process. While hospitals are obligated to provide emergency care services, most...
By E. Todd Truitt | 01:00 am | March 28, 2008
NOW MORE THAN EVER, institutional investors are being urged to allocate funds to alternative investments. The conventional wisdom is that this kind of portfolio diversification will improve future ret...
By Molly Merrill | 01:00 am | March 27, 2008
According to a new survey, employers in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio believe that worksite wellness programs are better than high-deductible health plans for managing healthcare costs....
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | March 27, 2008
TWO COMPANIES are launching an initiative to help state Medicaid programs save money by avoiding the manual recovery of pharmacy claims from commercial insurers. The proprietary program,...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | March 27, 2008
PSS World Medical has announced that it has sold a portion of its shares of athenahealth, Inc., a Watertown, Mass.-based provider of Internet-based IT and business management services to physician pra...