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PURSUING OVERDUE BILL PAYMENTS from ordinary people in a severe recession is tantamount to walking through a public relations minefield for healthcare providers. With all the amplified rhetoric in the healthcare reform debate over the high cost of healthcare and how regular citizens are financial victims of a broken system, it’s easy for providers to be cast as the villains.
Less than a year after merging with its biggest competitor, HealthPort has filed plans for a $100 million initial public offering of stock.
With the advent of new technology, healthcare providers are taking a closer look at their accounts receivable practices. What had traditionally been a back-end process is now being pushed to the front, allowing providers to arrange for and secure payment before the patient leaves the office.
Not all healthcare IT innovations concern patient care – an important fact to consider when providers are looking to streamline costs.
Both the House and Senate are incorporating value-based insurance design elements into their health insurance reform bills.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will be awarding high-risk pool grants this month to states looking to cover operational losses and fund disease management and other programs.
According to a new study, obesity comprises 9.1 percent of all medical spending in the United States, up from 6.5 percent in 1998.
While the Chicago medical community is more consolidated than most large cities, the physician segment is likely to contract even more in the future, reports HealthLeaders-InterStudy.
Social networking sites are usually taboo in the workplace, but the launch of Delta-Exchange could encourage their use in the physician’s office.
While the Medicare competitive bidding program is set to restart in October, a recent study indicates the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services drastically misread the marketplace and that the current competitive bidding program reduces overall competition and hurts the quality of patient care.