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By Richard Pizzi | 12:00 pm | January 12, 2010
The Baylor Health Care System, based in Dallas, has selected a vendor to manage the automated processing of nearly 300,000 invoices per year across its 12-hospital system.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 11:50 am | January 12, 2010
The Food and Drug Administration awarded a $72 million contract to Harvard Pilgrim Health Care to develop a test version of the FDA's Sentinel system, an electronic network designed to sift health data for threats to medical product safety.
By Richard Pizzi | 11:42 am | January 12, 2010
The HWS Labor Market Pulse Index, a quarterly barometer of local market healthcare workforce fluctuations, reveals broadening demand for healthcare workers across a number of regions, particularly in California and parts of the Midwest and Southwest, for the fourth quarter of 2009.
By Chelsey Ledue | 11:39 am | January 12, 2010
Officials at St. Anthony’s Medical Center, St. Louis’ largest free-standing hospital, say they saved $3 million in the hospital's first year with the Premier healthcare alliance.
By Diana Manos | 11:26 am | January 12, 2010
A new study of random-sample auditing of health plans says the method doesn't detect hundreds of millions of wasted dollars.
By Chelsey Ledue | 11:10 am | January 12, 2010
Healthcare reform is “around us, on top of us, it’s all over,” said Richard L. Clarke, president and CEO of the Healthcare Financial Management Association, during Tuesday's keynote speech that kicked off the HFMA’s Virtual Healthcare Finance Conference and Career Fair.
By Diana Manos | 12:01 pm | January 11, 2010
As Congressional leaders work to merge the House and Senate versions of their healthcare reform bills, the American Hospital Association has asked that any final reform provide universal coverage.
By Chelsey Ledue | 11:53 am | January 11, 2010
The growing cost of brand-name prescription drugs is a concern for patients, payers and providers – particularly when price increases are large and sudden, says the Government Accountability Office.
By Chelsey Ledue | 11:27 am | January 11, 2010
Med-Vision, a Tampa, Fla.-based healthcare planning, risk management and wellness consulting consulting company, has reportedly helped clients reduce healthcare costs by 10 percent to 12 percent over the past two years by using Verisk Health’s Explorer solution.
By Bernie Monegain | 08:01 am | January 11, 2010
Hospital executives taking part in the Premier healthcare alliance's QUEST program say they saved $577 million last year by making small changes.