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By Healthcare Finance Staff | 10:42 am | May 31, 2011
A leader of a prescription fraud scheme has been sentenced to six years in prison for healthcare fraud, HIPAA violations and aggravated identity theft.
By Bernie Monegain | 09:20 am | May 27, 2011
An annual review of the nation's health insurers by athenahealth and Physicians Practices has placed Hartford, Conn.-based Aetna at the top of the list.
By Eric Wicklund | 11:09 am | May 25, 2011
The Huron Consulting Group's healthcare practice is offering a new product that aims to help healthcare providers steer a straight path through the revenue cycle management maze.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 10:50 am | May 23, 2011
California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris has announced a $241 million settlement - the largest recovery in the history of the state's False Claims Act - with Quest Diagnostics to recover illegal overcharges to the state's medical program for the poor.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 11:14 am | May 20, 2011
Progress toward ICD-10 implementation is revving up, according to a survey commissioned by the TriZetto Group, a provider of healthcare IT software and service solutions.
By Carol Spencer | 11:28 am | May 19, 2011
As providers keep hearing over and over-from RACs and their own Medicare contractors, insufficient documentation is frequently the reason for claim denials.
By Eric Wicklund | 10:29 am | May 12, 2011
Two healthcare IT companies are joining forces to market an Internet-based personal health record solution to insurance providers looking to cut unnecessary clinical and administrative costs.
By Eric Wicklund | 10:22 am | May 11, 2011
Two Florida based healthcare IT companies, one focusing on practice management and the other on electronic medical records, are partnering to help urgent care centers and hospital emergency departments manage their clinical and administrative affairs on one platform.
By John Andrews | 02:45 pm | May 06, 2011
Business intelligence may sound “techie,” but it really isn’t.
By Eric Wicklund | 02:38 pm | May 06, 2011
The developer of a national over-the-counter healthcare benefits payment platform now being used for Medicare Advantage members has unveiled a new platform for Medicaid, giving the beleaguered state-run program a means of controlling costs and cutting waste.