Healthcare Finance Staff
The Healthcare Financial Management Association has named 12 healthcare organizations as winners of the 2011 MAP Award for High Performance in Revenue Cycle. Winners will be recognized at the upcoming ANI: The Healthcare Finance Conference.
University of Cincinnati analysis of hospital supply chains – medicines, materials, devices and office supplies – reveals that the use of RFID technology can help hospitals cut as much as 18 percent in labor costs associated with resupplying.
QuadraMed, which develops software for healthcare information management, and Elsevier, the publisher of scientific, technical and medical information, have announced an alliance that combines QuadraMed's training tools with Elsevier's educational courses to ease ICD-10 transition.
The average medical claims error rate in 2010 climbed to 19.3 percent, a two percent increase from the previous year, according to the American Medical Association's fourth annual National Health Insurer Report Card.
The biggest obstacle healthcare facility administrators and doctors face when forming accountable care organizations (ACOs) is physician alignment, says a new survey by healthcare staffing company AMN Healthcare.
More than 5 million Americans with traditional Medicare took advantage of one or more of the preventive benefits that are now available free thanks to the Affordable Care Act, according to a report released Monday by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
Medicaid managed care plans run by publicly traded, for-profit insurers have higher administrative costs and lower quality of care, according to a brief released last week by the Commonwealth Fund.
The government has found a new high-tech way to crack down on fraud in the Medicare program – predictive modeling. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) said last week the initiative would start on July 1.
Wisconsin's budget bill passed earlier this week drops a provision for public hearings to be held in advance of any cuts to BadgerCare, the state's Medicaid program. The move comes as the state is looking to trim nearly $500 million from BadgerCare as part of the state's effort to balance the budget.
Last Thursday, the National Prevention, Health Promotion, and Public Health Council released the National Prevention and Health Promotion Strategy, a comprehensive plan that will help increase the number of Americans who are healthy at every stage of life.