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BancTec, which specializes in financial business process outsourcing, transaction automation and document management, has acquired certain assets of Richardson, Texas-based GTESS, a provider of claims pre-adjudication technology and services for the healthcare industry.
Ardis Dee Hoven, MD, a Kentucky-based internal medicine and infectious disease specialist, has been elected president-elect of the American Medical Association (AMA).
Pharmaceutical sales representatives are not eligible for overtime pay ruled the United States Supreme Court.
The healthcare provider community must make changes to the delivery of care in order to meet the challenges currently facing the industry and the nation. That will be the central message Brent James, MD, chief quality officer and executive director of the Institute for Health Care Delivery Research at Intermountain Healthcare delivers during his speech "Clinical Transformation and Increasing Value," at the Healthcare Financial Management Association's ANI conference in Las Vegas at 2:45 p.m. on Monday, June 25.
Sentara Healthcare decreased weekly eligibility-related denials by 7 percent and reduced incorrect insurance denials by 16 percent, reducing write-offs by roughly $1 million over a five-month period. Andy Weddle, vice president of revenue cycle at Sentara Healthcare, and Ed Caldwell, senior vice president of revenue cycle services at Emdeon, will lead a 7 a.m. early riser session, "Sentara Healthcare: Using Technology and Professional Services to Efficiently Manage Uncompensated Care," on Wednesday, June 27 and discussed the success story with Healthcare Finance News Editor Rene Letourneau.
These days, healthcare systems feel pressured to transform in order to drive down costs and improve patient care. One way to cut costs is through gainsharing.
Healthcare financial executives will gather at the Healthcare Financial Management Association's annual ANI conference in Las Vegas on June 24 to 27 to discuss the biggest issues currently facing the industry.
David Walker, founder and CEO of the Comeback America Initiative and former U.S. Comptroller General, will be giving the keynote address at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, June 26 during the Healthcare Financial Management Association's ANI conference. He gave Healthcare Finance News Managing Editor Stephanie Bouchard a glimpse of what attendees may expect to hear.
According to a recent industry survey by business intelligence and revenue cycle software provider Craneware, more than 60 percent of hospital executives believe effective revenue integrity programs are essential to the financial health of their organizations.
It's almost too perfect. Of all the GOP candidates President Barack Obama could possibly face in the 2012 election, he's been matched against Mitt Romney.