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TransUnion has acquired MedData, a Charlotte, N.C.-based provider of healthcare insurance information and data solutions for hospitals, physician practices and major healthcare insurance companies.
Recovery audit contractors are creating apprehension among healthcare providers. The threat of an audit means increased reliance on efficient, accurate care and billing information.
With an overwhelming number of vectors and variables to consider, planning a hospital budget might now be considered in the same league as rocket science.
IBM’s financing arm has announced partnerships with four healthcare IT vendors in an effort to push electronic health records to providers ahead of the government’s incentive program.
Some companies just aren’t meant to go public.
With the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and Medicare’s Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) program expected to dominate the headlines in 2010, developers of financial products for the healthcare market say the year’s buzzword should be accountability.
In October, the Harris County Healthcare Alliance, in collaboration with UnitedHealthcare and Community Health Choice, launched a program to offer healthcare benefits to uninsured employees of small businesses in the Texas county.
Blue Shield of California and network hospitals that have deployed its Partnership in Operations Excellence and Transparency (POET) have seen a reduction in administrative costs.
Retail health clinics were a disruptive threat to payers and providers when they first appeared in mid-2000.
The success of retail clinics relies on collaboration with local physicians, according to a recent case study.