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Real-time adjudication – a long-sought goal of physician practices – allows for the analysis of payments and rejections on the spot before a patient even leaves the office. In an...
STERLING, IL – Hospitals leave too much money on the table in their dealings with payers, and need to get better at collecting what they’re owed.Kenny Koerner, director of patient...
MINUTES AFTER the election, Congress was already astir with the possibilities of healthcare reform. As well they should be. The voters made it perfectly clear that healthcare is an issue they don't wa...
THOUGH MOST PATIENTS would rather stay at their local hospital for any procedure, sizable increases in healthcare costs, co-payments and transparency efforts – coupled with high numbers of unins...
WASHINGTON – Healthcare leaders are optimistic that President-elect Barack Obama will follow through on his pledge to expand access to care and commit $50 billion over five years to advance heal...
MEDIA, PA – Change isn’t always welcome, especially at hospitals. Over time, staff become used to the old ways of doing things and aren’t ready to give them up.That wasnR...
In some "very critical areas," Joint Commission-accredited hospitals have improved the quality of patient care over a six-year period, saving lives and improving the health of thousands of p...
MUNCIE, IN – Two major central Indiana health systems are moving toward a merger that could bring financial benefits to all five hospitals involved.The Cardinal Health System, based in...
The Microsoft Corporation has announced that Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Vermont has saved nearly $500,000 by using Microsoft’s partner compensation management system, which overhauled incenti...
As this issue of Healthcare Finance News went to press, we learned that Tom Daschle, former Democratic senator from South Dakota and Senate Majority Leader, was to be nominated secretary of the U.S. D...