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NaviNet has launched two new online solutions designed to help health plans improve their relationship with providers.
Among the topics ready to take center stage at HFMA's 2009 ANI: The Healthcare Finance Conference is the increase in consumer-directed healthcare - in particular, the increase in options available to the consumer to pay for his or her healthcare needs.
As health reform debate continues on Capitol Hill, Sen. Michael Enzi (R-Wyo.), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, said Monday he "strongly opposes" creating a government-run healthcare program.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will fully launch its Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) program by January 2010, and hospitals need to be ready.
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has made available nearly $200 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to support student loan repayments for primary care medical, dental and mental health clinicians who want to work at National Health Service Corps sites.
Four Miami-area residents were recently sentenced for a $10 million Medicare fraud scheme involving HIV infusion clinics.
President Barack Obama devoted his entire weekly address on Saturday to championing healthcare reform.
Emdeon, a Nashville, Tenn.-based provider of revenue and payment cycle solutions, is partnering with Bloodhound Technologies, a Durham, N.C.-based provider of claims editing and analytics, to deliver a new claims processing model.
Over 300 nursing homes in the eastern region of Pennsylvania have begun reporting healthcare-associated infections to the state's Patient Safety Authority through its Pennsylvania Patient Safety Reporting System.
The Ohio Children's Hospital Association and its six member hospitals have released the results of a collaboration to improve quality in children's hospitals.