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By Chip Means | 01:00 am | October 09, 2007
They're calling it a "friendly takeover," but SAP's announcement that it will buy rival IT firm Business Objects has some analysts scratching their heads. The two major players...
By Richard Pizzi | 01:00 am | October 09, 2007
Ingenix, a healthcare IT company based in Eden Prairie, Minn. , yesterday released its fourth annual report on the "Top 200 Coding Hospitals in the U.S. " The report ranks hospitals by the completenes...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | October 08, 2007
Seven companies that market private fee-for-service plans for Medicare have received permission from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to resume marketing the plans to beneficiaries....
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | October 08, 2007
The QuadraMed Corp. of Reston, Va. has announced that Midland Memorial Hospital in Midland, Texas has gone live enterprise-wide with QuadraMed's Revenue Cycle and Identity Management...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | October 05, 2007
As the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services enters a new fiscal year, it's beginning to take a fresh look at the future implementation of ICD-10 codes. One step in that process...
By Chip Means | 01:00 am | October 03, 2007
President Bush today has delivered on his promise to veto Senate's $35 billion expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program - an expansion he feels is too close to universal, single-paye...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | October 03, 2007
The timing couldn't be better. One day after U.S. Preventive Medicine announced its acquisition of Specialty Disease Management Services, Inc., the Milken Institute released...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | October 02, 2007
Twenty percent of the addresses associated with the National Provider Identification numbers issued by the federal government this year are wrong, a new report contends. Some 19...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | October 01, 2007
The QuadraMed Corporation has completed the acquisition of the Misys computerized patient record assets of Raliegh, N.C.-based Misys Healthcare at the purchase price...
By Chip Means | 01:00 am | October 01, 2007
Members of the Senate followed the House in passing bipartisan $35 billion legislation to reauthorize the State Children's Health Insurance Program at the end of last week. With President Bush plannin...