Healthcare Finance Staff
WellPoint health ousts CFO over misconduct Top executives at WellPoint Health Networks Inc. have requested and received the resignation of David C. Colby, the company’s chief...
DALLAS – Roughly 70 percent of the nation’s physicians work in a small practice, defined as having 10 or fewer doctors on staff. And many of them don’t have billing software....
CMS proposes pay increase for nursing homes The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has proposed a $690 million increase in Medicare payments to nursing homes for fiscal year 2...
Walgreens a competitor with Take Care purchase The Walgreens Co., a Deerfield, Ill.-based company that operates 5,700 pharmacies nationwide, last month purchased Take Care Health Sy...
WASHINGTON – Provider reimbursements calculated under the fee-for-service methodology have been the subject of industry-wide disdain for a variety of reasons related to physician risk, the high...
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 Robert Tennant It seemed straightforward and simple: transition all providers from the current cumbersome system of multiple proprietary identification numbers to a singl...
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...
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...