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FOR VENDORS in the healthcare finance sector, 2008 was perhaps best defined by a blockbuster merger that was announced in March and nearly derailed by financial concerns in September before coming to...
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...
THERE HAVE BEEN many battles on the community care front in 2008. Some are still unsettled, but for now things have slowed down.Just before the turn of the year, the Medicare, Medicaid and SC...
CLEVELAND, OH – Medical Mutual of Ohio’s several hundred employer groups of 100 or more employees now have access to an interest-free credit card to pay healthcare services within six mont...
What are some healthcare reforms we might see in the early days of the Obama administration? One near-term effort will be an attempt to expand the State Children’s Health Insurance P...
A recent survey by insurance provider Aflac revealed that 86 percent of registered nurses said a hospital's benefit package is one of the top criteria for accepting employment, with 75 percent preferr...
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...
Many healthcare leaders have a positive eye toward President-elect Barack Obama's nomination of former Sen. Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) to be the next Department of Health and Human Services Secretary....