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A Colorado man whose name, social security number and address were stolen was billed $44,000 by a hospital for a surgical procedure he never had. Two years later, he's still working to clear his name...
Although government and industry officials have been touting the patient safety benefits of electronic health records, physician practices have been slow to adopt the technology – primarily beca...
Providers saving with credentialing datasource More than 400,000 providers are now using a data collection service to streamline the delivery of credential informat...
Physicians are still predominantly paid for productivity rather than quality, a study released Jan. 4 by the Center for Studying Health System Change has shown....
Consolidation among health plans took a step forward in the competitive Michigan market with the announcement last week of the sale of a smaller health plan to a larger provider-based health plan....
No amount of incentive will entice physicians to participate in a quality data submission program if they are hesitant about pay for performance (P4P), according to Chris Weiss, president and CEO of H...
December proved a cool month for some publicly traded healthcare providers. Analysts were generally bearish on the prospects of companies like Triad Hospitals and Tenet Health, thanks to declining mar...
If 2006 was the year consumer directed health plans began to pick up steam, 2007 may be the year that all-in-one "smart" cards, designed to automate the payment process, grab the public spotlight....
Three hospitals are expected to implement a new approach to delivering primary care in the first quarter of 2007, testing a concept that's projected to provide cost-effective options for insurers and...
Axentis, a Cleveland-based provider of governance, risk and compliance management solutions, has been selected by Houston-based EGL, Inc., a global transportation, supply chain manage...