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By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | January 19, 2007
A diverse coalition of advocacy groups, employers, payers, and healthcare associations has put forward what it hailed as an "unprecedented" and "historic" plan to provide health coverage to the nation...
By Diana Manos | 12:00 am | January 18, 2007
Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt announced Wednesday that 175 companies  -up from 100 in December- have now pledged to abide by President Bush's transparency plan for advancing...
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | January 16, 2007
The ability of the federal government to negotiate drug prices with pharmaceutical companies is shaping up as the first healthcare policy hot button of 2007. On Friday, Janua...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | January 16, 2007
eClinicalWorks, a Westborough, Mass.-based provider of unified EMR/PM systems, has announced that St. Luke’s Health System, which serves Idaho, Oregon and Nevada, has chosen the...
By Chip Means | 12:00 am | January 10, 2007
Eastman Kodak Company has announced the sale of its healthcare group to Toronto-based Onex Healthcare Holdings Inc. in a deal initially valued at $2.35 billion. Pending returns on investments, the tot...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | January 09, 2007
The CSC Group of Brecksville, Ohio has announced that MemorialCare Medical Center of Huntington Beach, Calif. will be installing the company's PAPERS EDI Capture, Payment Processing,...
By Chip Means | 12:00 am | January 08, 2007
Healthcare spending for the year 2005 slowed for the third consecutive year and is growing at a rate that's comparable with the rest of the economy, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services anno...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | January 08, 2007
Lawson offers new budgeting, planning tool  ST. PAUL, MN – Lawson has announced the availability of its newest Enterprise Performance Management...
By John Andrews | 12:00 am | January 08, 2007
Although the healthcare industry got a reprieve when Congress delayed a 5.1 percent Medicare physician rate cut until next year, financial experts say reductions are inevitable and providers still nee...
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | January 08, 2007
Where some providers measure their payment cycles in months, Harriet Oster does so in seconds. Oster, office manager at Lake Murray OB/GYN, has most of her claims to Blue Cross Blue S...