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By Diana Manos | 12:00 am | June 12, 2007
Doctors and healthcare executives could lose money if they don't take advantage of the year-long National Provider Identifier rule contingency period to get things up and running, according to Martin...
By Chip Means | 12:00 am | June 12, 2007
Federal funding for a program to cover children lacking health insurance runs out in three months. Most states, even those experiencing funding shortfalls, are looking at various methods of expanding...
By Diana Manos | 12:00 am | June 11, 2007
The Department of Health and Human Services announced late Friday the resignation of David Brailer, MD as vice chair of the American Health Information Community. Brailer, form...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | June 07, 2007
DALLAS – Roughly 70 percent of the nation’s physicians work in a small practice, defined as having 10 or fewer doctors on staff. And many of them don’t have billing software....
By Chip Means | 12:00 am | June 07, 2007
NEW ORLEANS – Demolished hospital facilities, an exodus of healthcare workers and a skyrocketing number of people requiring urgent care are part of the legacy of havoc that Hurricane Katrina dro...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | June 07, 2007
InstaMed receives investment from U.S. Bank Philadelphia-based InstaMed has received an equity investment from the Minneapolis-based U.S. Bank as part of its third round of funding....
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | June 07, 2007
SAN JOSE, CA – More than half of the California physicians involved in a year-old pay-for-performance consortium have reported using new healthcare information technology to schedule patient vis...
By Patty Enrado | 12:00 am | June 07, 2007
EDEN PRAIRIE, MN – Three health plans have completed beta testing of Ingenix’s real-time medical underwriting solution. The application, now generally available, is designed...
By Patty Enrado | 12:00 am | June 07, 2007
NEW YORK – As if hospitals and integrated delivery networks don’t have enough on their plates, effectively managing the entire patient relationship or customer experience has become a busi...
By Chip Means | 12:00 am | June 07, 2007
Charitable giving has taken a significant downturn for the nation's charity hospitals, as donations of at least $1 million to not-for-profit facilities in the first three months of 2007 are down 35 pe...