Community Benefit

Passport Health Communications, a Franklin, Tenn.-based developer of business management and revenue cycle solutions for healthcare providers, on Wednesday unveiled Payment Navigator, a new solution designed to help match uninsured patients with the best available method of payment before they receive medical care.

Emory Healthcare, the largest healthcare system in Georgia, is boosting eligibility services at its metro Atlanta facilities to help its growing self-pay patient population obtain healthcare coverage.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has expanded Medicare coverage of evidence-based tobacco cessation counseling to any beneficiary who is a smoker.

Investment in community-based health centers could save states millions of dollars a year, according to a study conducted by The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services.