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Experian is expanding its healthcare business by purchasing Medical Present Value, a revenue cycle management company headquartered in Austin, Texas, for $185 million.

Transforming clinical, administrative and operational processes are critical components for healthcare organizations looking to deliver higher-quality care and reduce costs, Melinda Hancock and Michael Spine of Bon Secours Virginia Health Systems said at ANI in Orlando, Fla.

Metropolitan Health Networks will acquire Continucare for $416 million in cash and stock, in a deal that will create a combined entity providing care to more than 68,000 Medicare Advantage and Medicaid customers in 18 Florida counties.

No matter what reimbursement or delivery model healthcare organizations decide on, success in the healthcare reform era requires three core components – the right physician leaders, the right executives and the right technology infrastructure.

With health systems scrambling to meet the October 1, 2013, ICD-10 implementation deadline, 3M Health Information Systems aims to help with staff training with its 3M ICD-10 Education Program.

With the prohibitive and rising cost of healthcare, there has never been a greater need for accountable care organizations, according to Mark McClellan, MD, former Administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

At a Monday session of the National Health IT and Delivery System Transformation Summit in Washington, Farzad Mostashari, MD, the national coordinator for health IT, made an eloquent and persuasive case for how meaningful use is not just an arbitrary set of requirements the government is asking of providers in exchange for incentives.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has informed state Medicaid directors of new smoking cessation services and reminded them that Medicaid programs are now required to fully cover those services for pregnant women.

Medical-surgical supply costs have become the second highest and fastest-growing operating expense for providers. In an effort to help curb spending, healthcare technology company GHX released a list at the HFMA-ANI conference in Orlando that aims to give providers greater control in this area.

U.S. Reps. Allyson Schwartz (D-Pa.) and Greg Walden (R-Ore.) and 26 co-sponsors have introduced the Home Health Care Planning Improvement Act, which would allow physician assistants, nurse practitioners, clinic nurse specialists and certified nurse midwives to order home health services for Medicare beneficiaries.