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By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | October 24, 2007
DALLAS – The timing couldn’t be better. One day after U.S. Preventive Medicine announced its acquisition of Specialty Disease Management Services, Inc., a national provider of chr...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | October 24, 2007
Contributed By Ron Nall It’s amazing how much more efficient a little information sharing can make things. And nowhere is this currently more applicable than in...
By Patty Enrado | 12:00 am | October 24, 2007
MEMPHIS, TN – Memphis Managed Care has completed implementing MEDecision’s patient clinical summaries (PCS) as part of its pay-for-performance pilot. “The right way...
By Patty Enrado | 12:00 am | October 24, 2007
MINNEAPOLIS – Consumer-directed health plans, or CDHPs, have garnered a lot of attention and growth in the last couple of years, but industry experts say the market is still untapped....
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | October 23, 2007
WASHINGTON – Seven companies that market private fee-for-service plans for Medicare have received permission from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to begin marketing the plans to ben...
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | October 23, 2007
CONSHOHOCKEN, PA – Some predictions of rapid growth in healthcare haven’t panned out. But rosy guesses on the growth of convenience care clinics seem to be fully on track. Last mont...
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | October 23, 2007
WASHINGTON – As the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services enters a new fiscal year, it’s beginning to take a fresh look at the future implementation of ICD-10 codes. One s...
By Diana Manos | 12:00 am | October 23, 2007
WASHINGTON – Hospitals and healthcare organizations who think they have until May 23 to transition to the National Provider Identifier (NPI) on Medicare claims now have less time than they thoug...
By Patty Enrado | 12:00 am | October 23, 2007
DETROIT – By all accounts, General Motors’ agreement to contribute $29.9 million to the United Auto Workers’ healthcare trust constitutes the largest upfront funding in the history o...
By Chip Means | 12:00 am | October 23, 2007
WASHINGTON – President Bush, who recently delivered on his promise to veto Senate’s $35 billion expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, has succeeded in garnering...