Healthcare Finance Staff

175 companies commit to Bush transparency plan Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt announced in January that 175 companies – up from 100 in December – ha...

Contributed by David Fein, CEO of ValuSource, a Colorado Springs, Colo.-based provider of business valuation and medical practice benchmarking technology. Most people know that benchmarking...

DALLAS – The old adage “an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure” is hitting the front page – or, at least, a full-page spread in a recent issue of The Wall Street...

OAKLAND, CA – Kaiser Permanente has been selling its health savings accounts in California since August, but the product rollout only became effective on January 1. During th...

WALTHAM, MA – Tenet Healthcare, one of the nation’s largest hospital chains, is paying $900 million to resolve charges that it had cheated the government by overbilling Medicare and paying...

Children’s hospitals ask Congress to save SCHIP Last month, 35 regional coalitions led by children’s hospitals, Catholic hospitals and other healthcare organizations c...

Report: Hospitals to see extra $300M in revenues American hospitals are expected to find an additional $300 million in net patient revenues in 2007, as more than 1,000 additional...

RALEIGH, NC – The Center for Community Health Leadership, an initiative sponsored by Misys Healthcare Systems, has selected the city of Greater New Haven, Conn. as the first recipient of a grant...

IRVINE, CA – SK&A Information Services has just made released its “Physician Office Credit Card Acceptance Data” file, which includes data on more than 600,000 office-based physician...

Salt Lake City-based 3M Health Information Systems has added a module to its 3M Coding and Reimbursement System to enable medical necessity validation at the point of c...