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By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | January 25, 2008
ROCHESTER, MN – Two major forces in healthcare – one well-known for clinical innovation and the other a significant healthcare IT vendor – are joining to pursue medical imaging resea...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | January 25, 2008
WASHINGTON – Retiree benefits may be trimmed by employers after a former worker reaches age 65 and becomes eligible for Medicare coverage, according to a recent ruling by the Equal Employmen...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | January 25, 2008
WASHINGTON – The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) voted in early January in favor of a 1.1 percent increase in Medicare payments for doctors in 2009. The vote comes as a pre...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | January 25, 2008
THE MEDICARE PAYMENT ADVISORY COMMISSION (MedPAC) – an independent body comprised mainly of physicians – has determined that doctors should be paid a 1.1 percent increase for Medicare serv...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | January 25, 2008
MINNEAPOLIS – Two companies – one a healthcare payer, the other a company offering services to physicians – are collaborating to bring real-time adjudication to physician offices....
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | January 25, 2008
SACRAMENTO, CA – California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has outlined a bleak prognosis for the budget of the nation’s most populous state, and healthcare spending is one of the areas feelin...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | January 25, 2008
Contributed by Dan Spirek THE AFFORDABILITY CRISIS facing the U.S. healthcare system won’t be cured by one simple prescription. We need a solution that gathers all healthcare constitu...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | January 25, 2008
Accuro Healthcare Solutions Inc. has filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission to sell an initial public offering of stock. The company hopes to raise...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | January 25, 2008
MEMPHIS, TN – Researchers at Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare and the University of Memphis Center for Healthcare Technology have taken a lead from the military on an innovative way to explore ho...
By Chelsey Ledue | 01:00 am | January 25, 2008
The TriZetto Group has unveiled its Member Benefit Profile and Treatment Cost Navigator solutions and enhanced the Benefit Cost Modeler. The three Web-based solutions are desig...