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Most Massachusetts residents support a new law effective July 1 that requires everyone in the state to have health insurance, a recent study shows. The findings sh...
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger touted his state’s collaboration between Democrat and Republican lawmakers as key to creating healthcare reform that will be a model for other states and th...
Hospitals probably will be rushing to get ready for the significant changes expected to be included in the government’s final rule for Medicare’s inpatient prospective payment system....
New approaches to enticing hospitals and physicians to collaborate on incentives for cost-saving were discussed by experts this week at HFMA's ANI 2007. The dile...
Providers can save a lot of money, time and other resources if their administrative systems are preconfigured for their facilities before they're delivered. Basing those systems on best practices for...
At the Healthcare Financial Management Association's Annual National Institute, Gen. Colin Powell urged healthcare finance executives to step up to leadership in his Monday keynote talk....
Evidence-based medicine (EBM) should be taken into account along with costs and evidence of value, if it has any hope of lowering healthcare costs, experts say. A Web exclusive int...
After 10 years of operation, athenahealth Inc. has announced plans for an initial public offering of stock. The Watertown, MA-based company announced late Friday that it has fil...
Infocrossing, Inc. of Leonia, N.J. has unveiled RA-Expert, a risk adjustment processing system designed to help health plans create, manage and submit Hierarchical Condition Ca...
Companies are increasingly implementing health and disease management programs for their employees, a survey of 242 major U.S. employers revealed. The survey, conducted by...