Community Benefit

Behavioral health has been treated as a separate entity in the healthcare world for as long as anyone can remember, but that may not be the case when accountable care organizations begin take hold in 2012.

L.A. Care Health Plan, the nation's largest public health plan, has approved $529,000 to support five Los Angeles County community clinics' Health Information Technology (HIT) projects.

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.