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By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | January 16, 2007
The ability of the federal government to negotiate drug prices with pharmaceutical companies is shaping up as the first healthcare policy hot button of 2007. On Friday, Janua...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | January 16, 2007
eClinicalWorks, a Westborough, Mass.-based provider of unified EMR/PM systems, has announced that St. Luke’s Health System, which serves Idaho, Oregon and Nevada, has chosen the...
By Chip Means | 01:00 am | January 10, 2007
Eastman Kodak Company has announced the sale of its healthcare group to Toronto-based Onex Healthcare Holdings Inc. in a deal initially valued at $2.35 billion. Pending returns on investments, the tot...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | January 09, 2007
The CSC Group of Brecksville, Ohio has announced that MemorialCare Medical Center of Huntington Beach, Calif. will be installing the company's PAPERS EDI Capture, Payment Processing,...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | January 08, 2007
Congress needs to reform Medicare and Medicaid to improve their integrity and sustainability, according to a Nov. 17 report issued by the Government Accountability Office. "Absent ref...
By John Andrews | 01:00 am | January 08, 2007
Although the healthcare industry got a reprieve when Congress delayed a 5.1 percent Medicare physician rate cut until next year, financial experts say reductions are inevitable and providers still nee...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | January 08, 2007
Provisions in the end-of-session bill passed by Congress provide a number of elements intended to stimulate the use of health savings accounts. HSA provisions added to the Ta...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | January 08, 2007
Lawson offers new budgeting, planning tool  ST. PAUL, MN – Lawson has announced the availability of its newest Enterprise Performance Management...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | January 08, 2007
Where some providers measure their payment cycles in months, Harriet Oster does so in seconds. Oster, office manager at Lake Murray OB/GYN, has most of her claims to Blue Cross Blue S...
By Chip Means | 01:00 am | January 08, 2007
Healthcare spending for the year 2005 slowed for the third consecutive year and is growing at a rate that's comparable with the rest of the economy, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services anno...