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Provisions in the end-of-session bill passed by Congress provide a number of elements intended to stimulate the use of health savings accounts. HSA provisions added to the Ta...
Congress needs to reform Medicare and Medicaid to improve their integrity and sustainability, according to a Nov. 17 report issued by the Government Accountability Office. "Absent ref...
Responding to consistent and widespread concern over proposed cuts to physician Medicare payment rates, the lame-duck Congress passed on its last day, Dec. 9, legislation preventing cuts through 2007....
While vendors talk of developing newer underlying technology and marrying clinical data with financial data, the heart of business decision support systems for hospitals is still determining the cost...
Improving the claims submission process has paid benefits for a hospital chain as it seeks to improve its facilities' performances. And Michael De La Garza expects that improving the claims...
We are on a first-name basis with someone in our community named Tina.Let's call her poor Tina. She works in an oral surgeon's office in our community. She handles insurance, contentious clai...
The Medical Banking Project is taking on its first test case, aiming to begin to show how the nation's banks can play a role in solving some of the most vexing issues in healthcare data exchanges....
SAN Jose, CA – A global business intelligence company with its toe in the healthcare finance pool could be diving into the market in the near future, thanks to a newly announced merger....
Employers are proactively taking on spiraling healthcare costs. That's the theme of the personal health record (PHR) initiative announced in December by Intel Corp., Wal-Mart, Pitney Bowes, British Pe...
Physicians may face a 10 percent cut in Medicare reimbursements in 2008, the Congressional Budget warns, thanks in part to Congress' December action to defer a scheduled 5 percent cut....