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HealthPort has spun off its healthcare consulting service into an independent company.

A three-year-old developer of vision screening kiosks is using a $1.2 million grant from the National Institute of Health to launch a more comprehensive self-service and wellness station.

Hospitals faced with the complexities of matching patients with payment plans often maintain a stable of several collection agencies and teams, some in-house and some outsourced. Financial managers are then forced to choose the right agency for each account, while also ensuring that the data is correct.

The key to improving the cost of healthcare lies in making healthcare cost-effective. And Roy Schoenberg thinks he has solved that riddle.

AdvancedMD has announced the launch of a partner channel program designed to help qualified third-party medical billing companies as well as healthcare providers looking to outsource their billing operations.

The name of the game these days is value. Nowhere is that more evident than in the insurance industry, where health plans are struggling to determine their value in the midst of healthcare reform.

Increasing the health insurance industry's accuracy rating could save up to $15.5 billion annually, according to a recent report.

Healthcare Finance News Associate Editor Chelsey Ledue spoke with Darin Gordon, Medicaid Director for Tennessee, about his appointment as a 2011 Fellow to the Medicaid Leadership Institute.

Medicare has scheduled a bundled payment demonstration project for early 2012, but a handful of organizations across the country have launched the Acute Care Episode, or ACE, demonstration early.