Healthcare Finance Staff

NextGen Healthcare Information Systems of Horsham, Pa. has announced that it has released its data capture tools to help physician practices prepare for federal pay-for-performance (P...

Contributed by Joanne McCool If you cherish your sanity, this is no time to be a hospital administrator. The number of hospitals operating in the red demonstrates the mounting financial obs...

Contributed by Robert Tennant It seemed straightforward and simple: transition all providers from the current cumbersome system of multiple proprietary identification numbers to a singl...

HHS announces plan to release NPI, related data The Department of Health and Human Services has outlined its plan for what provider information will be attached to the national prov...

Watertown, Mass.-based athenahealth, Inc has signed a deal with the Colorado Medical Society, based in Denver, to allow the company's on-demand clinical and revenue-cycle management s...

GE Healthcare Financial Services and the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) have announced the release of "Healthcare Payment: Goals, Trends and Strategies," the first...

Benefitfocus of Charleston, S.C. has selected 2007 Data Warehouse software from York, Pa.-based ProfitBase to further enhance the company's Business Intelligence prog...

Perceptive Software of Shawnee, Kan. has announced that Orlando Regional Healthcare in Florida has deployed the company's ImageNow document management suite in its accounts payable de...

WATERTOWN, MA – athenahealth, Inc. has jumped into the pay-for-performance pool with both feet, announcing in March that its Web-based athenaNet practice management system includes physician qua...

AHA ASKS CMS FOR HOSPITAL INPUT ON MAC SELECTION The American Hospital Association is asking the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to allow hospitals and other providers to par...