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Short of handing the bill to a patient being wheeled into the hospital, ambulance services often have a difficult time recouping their expenses. In the aftermath of the emergency, that ambulance bill always seems to find its way to the back of the pile of unopened or neglected mail.

Nearly 100 state and specialty medical societies are urging the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction to include medical liability reforms in the legislative proposal it is due to release next month.

As the number of self-paying patients and high-deductible health plans grows, providers are encountering more difficulty than ever before with collecting payment for services rendered.

USC professor finds health plan consolidation leads to lower hospital costs: Q&A with Glenn Melnick

AmeriHealth Mercy, one of the largest Medicaid managed care plans in the country, has teamed with Boston-based healthcare communications network company NaviNet on a pilot program that will push prescription and clinical patient information to providers' handheld devices.

The Measure Applications Partnership (MAP), a public-private partnership convened by the National Quality Forum, released two reports on Tuesday that pointed to specific opportunities for more coordinated approaches to making healthcare safer and enhancing clinical performance.

Now that is has proven itself by beating the top two champions of the television game show Jeopardy! IBM's Watson technology is poised for its first commercial opportunity via a partnership with health insurance giant WellPoint that should see it providing clinical support to doctors as early as the first quarter of 2012.