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By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | December 06, 2006
Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) is continuing to increase the pressure on healthcare organizations to improve documentation of the community benefits they deliver in exchange for receiving tax-exempt s...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | December 05, 2006
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...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | December 04, 2006
Softheon, Inc. of Hauppage, N.Y., a provider of business process software solutions for healthcare payers, is partnering with Legacy Consulting Services of Plano, Tex...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | December 04, 2006
The payment approach used by Medicare to reimburse freestanding ambulatory surgical centers should be changed to match how the program pays for procedures in surgery centers attached to hospitals....
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | November 28, 2006
Click4Care of Powell, Ohio, a provider of medical management software, has unveiled the newest version of its ThinkHealth Solution, ThinkHealth Version 3.0, which helps payers with me...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | November 28, 2006
With hospitals receiving set payments for providing care, getting patients into the most appropriate care as soon as possible is crucial. Every day a patient spends in a setting that provides more car...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | November 28, 2006
Three healthcare organizations have developed a Web-based tool to help physicians assess patient safety procedures, with an eye toward reducing practices’ liability exposure....
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | November 21, 2006
3M’s healthcare IT division will purchase SoftMed Systems Inc., a healthcare software and services provider, in a deal that will...
By Chip Means | 01:00 am | November 21, 2006
Payment information for Medicare services commonly performed in physicians' offices and hospitals' outpatient departments will be made available to beneficiaries, providers and payers, the Centers for...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | November 20, 2006
A new study released in the November/December issue of Health Affairs suggests that the aging American population may strain employer-based health insurance....