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By Healthcare Finance Staff | 11:06 am | July 15, 2010
IBM announced plans Thursday to enlist some of its leading scientists and technologists to help medical practitioners and payers provide high-quality, evidence-based care to patients.
By Chris Anderson | 10:52 am | July 15, 2010
The Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor and Treasury have announced new regulations requiring new private health plans to cover evidence-based preventive services and eliminate cost-sharing requirements for those services.
By Bernie Monegain | 09:34 am | July 15, 2010
Republican members of the House Ways and Means Committee are calling on their leader to set a confirmation hearing for the man who has taken the reins of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid, which has an $800 billion annual budget.
By Richard Pizzi | 12:54 am | July 15, 2010
Marquette General Hospital and Bell Hospital in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula have agreed to create an Accountable Care Organization, to be called Superior Health Partners.
By Diana Manos | 12:03 pm | July 14, 2010
The American Hospital Association is not pleased with final regulations on the meaningful use of health IT.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 11:51 am | July 14, 2010
Two Detroit-area home healthcare providers have pled guilty in U.S. District Court for their roles in a home-health scheme to defraud Medicare according to the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services.
By Chelsey Ledue | 11:13 am | July 14, 2010
With healthcare reform and recent economic challenges on the minds of many executives, new pressures are influencing how compensation is structured as medical groups seek to recruit and retain physicians.
By Richard Pizzi | 11:09 am | July 14, 2010
The 2010 Healthcare Compensation Study reveals a continued slowing of salary increases for healthcare employees, but shows that turnover has been reduced dramatically.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 10:41 am | July 14, 2010
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida launched its new mobile web site less than three weeks ago, but early tracking reveals "encouraging" usage for both members and nonmembers.
By Eric Wicklund | 09:05 am | July 14, 2010
A new partnership is designed to help home health and hospice service workers improve their business through automated revenue cycle management.