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Emdeon, a provider of revenue and payment cycle solutions, is targeting the billions of dollars lost each year in healthcare fraud by acquiring a developer of data analytics technology designed to ferret out healthcare fraud and abuse.
Private health insurance plans serving Medicare beneficiaries will be paid $11.4 billion more in 2009 than the traditional Medicare fee-for-service program, a new Commonwealth Fund study finds.
Bon Secours Health System Inc., one of the largest Catholic health systems in the country, has invested $1.6 million in a nonprofit that provides low-interest loans to help communities that lack access to traditional financial services.
Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and responsible for leading healthcare reform, said comprehensive health reform is "on track," but is more likely to be ready by next fall, rather than the initial goal of this June.
Frankford Hospital, a three-hospital healthcare system in the Philadelphia region, has changed its name to Aria Health as it expands its clinical programs and services.
St. Joseph Medical Center in Houston, Texas, has sold approximately 39,000 outstanding patient accounts to Conifer Revenue Cycle Solutions, Inc.
St. Joseph Regional Medical Center in South Bend, Ind., has announced a pay freeze for employees as it prepares to open a new facility later this year.
The May 2009 Product Spotlight looks at contract management in healthcare organizations.
Recessions have a way of forcing everyone to rethink their expenditures and the prudence of each purchase. While hospitals historically haven’t had to do that with regularity, they definitely are doing it now and they are calling on group purchasing organizations and vendors to help them.
Most healthcare vendors are focused these days on improving the physician-patient relationship. API Healthcare finds its niche in looking in the other direction.