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Contributed By Ron Nall It’s amazing how much more efficient a little information sharing can make things. And nowhere is this currently more applicable than in...

DALLAS – The timing couldn’t be better. One day after U.S. Preventive Medicine announced its acquisition of Specialty Disease Management Services, Inc., a national provider of chr...

CHICAGO – Hospitals are seeing an increase in self-paying customers, increasing the stakes for collections and holding the potential to increase days in accounts receivable. A pane...

Initiate Systems unveils Master Data Service 8.0  LONDON – Initiate Systems Inc. has launched Master Data Service 8.0, a comprehensive master data management (MDM) platform...

CHICAGO – More hospitals are selling uncollectible bad debt to companies that specialize in those efforts. Such debt sales, while only for a small percentage of the value of the...

AS IDEAS GO, pay for performance is a simple one – using a financial reward to inspire high quality patient care. Implementing it throughout a healthcare organization, however, is proving to be...

AUGUSTA, ME – The burden of replacing a financial management system turned into an opportunity for MaineGeneral Health. The Augusta, Me.-based healthcare system went...

WASHINGTON –The House and Senate are considering legislation to ease Medicaid enrollment documentation requirements put into place in July 2006. The requirements are intended to keep illegal imm...

Committee mulls cutting MA pay to block physician cut The Senate Finance Committee on Oct. 17 further discussed the possibility of curbing payments to insurers managing private Medi...

WASHINGTON – A U.S. Treasury Department regulation released in August has clarified tax provisions that allow employees to make contributions toward the cost of individual health plans and pay f...