Patty Enrado

MODESTO, CA – At a time when health plans are trying to cut administrative costs by pushing member self-service to member portals, one health plan has opened a retail storefront to reach out to...

DAYTON, OH – While e-prescribing initiatives are becoming more prevalent, the Anthem National Accounts pilot involving approximately 100 physicians in Dayton and Youngstown, Ohio eschews a healt...

IN MID-JANUARY, Naples, Fla.-based Health Management Associates reported that it expects to record $200 million in bad debt expense in the fourth quarter due to an increase in self-paying patients....

WASHINGTON – A report released in early February reveals that roughly 2 percent of capital spent on the workforce is drained by disability, absenteeism and presenteeism....

OREM, UT – In a recent survey conducted by the Healthcare Financial Management Association, the top three capital investments now being undertaken by hospitals are information technology-related...

OAKLAND, CA – The Kaiser Foundation Health Plan is pushing for stricter and fairer rules to cover cancellations of individual health policies. Kaiser is in discussio...

WASHINGTON − Apple’s stock-option granting practices may be the highest-profile case under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission, but the inquiry into UnitedHealt...

While vendors talk of developing newer underlying technology and marrying clinical data with financial data, the heart of business decision support systems for hospitals is still determining the cost...

VIRGINIA BEACH, VA – After more than a year of strategic implementation, Optima Health Plan went live with a new provider network contract management system in mid-December. With plans...

Independence Blue Cross (IBC) will roll out a new benefits plan analysis tool to its Benefits Coding & Development department in the first quarter of 2007. Now with DST Health...