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Graphs from the October 2006 issue of Healthcare Finance News. If you have questions about the data, please contact editor Fred Bazzoli....

While Computer Sciences Corp.'s Blue Health Intelligence data warehouse has been deployed at only three Blues plans since July, the industry is beginning to recognize the benefits this type of warehou...

The first attempt to craft a bill requiring transparency in healthcare billing is receiving mostly positive grades from industry watchers. The bill (HR 6053) proposed by Rep. Mi...

Physician payment cuts may hit Medicare patient care Declining Medicare physician reimbursement may cause nearly 40 percent of medical group practices to limit the numb...

Several major carriers are incorporating enrollee-reported health risk assessments, or HRAs, into their care or disease management programs to garner a more complete picture of their care needs....

Healthcare Finance News, the monthly finance news magazine for the healthcare industry that begins regular publication this month, has named its staff and their coverage areas. MedTech Publ...

LACK OF TRAINING LIMITS RETURN ON IT INVESTMENT While nurses appear ready to use healthcare information technology, have only a limited amount of ongoing training. A survey b...

An Indiana company is marketing a new product that it says will save $9 billion to $38 billion over the next 10 years by streamlining the payment collection process for Medicare. Launched i...

The United States is lagging the rest of the industry world in several areas of primary care, including financial incentives, according to a Commonwealth Fund 2006 International Health Policy Survey r...

Mobile features coming in cardiology  There are no clear-cut market leaders among the current crop of cardiology reporting and documentation systems, said Jeremy...