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Medicare plans to increase the pressure on hospitals to improve quality, and hopes that state Medicaid programs will jump on board as well.The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services...
Dealing with decreased payments from Medicare and insurers was cited as the biggest concern of healthcare providers in a recent survey by data and network service provider IVANS, Inc. To help...
MedeFinance, an Emeryville, Calif.-based provider of healthcare performance analytics solutions, has secured $50 million in funding, led by Bain Capital Ventures, with additional reinvestment from cer...
A household survey sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the National Center for Health Statistics shows U.S. healthcare costs should approach $2.4 trillion this year....
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services set new nursing home payment rates for 2009 and issued a final rule to on payment for services for people who need the intensive rehabilitation service...
According to a final regulation published Thursday, hospices serving Medicare beneficiaries will see an estimated 2.5 percent increase in their payments for 2009. As part of the final rule, t...
"Claims scrubbing" might sound like something that requires a bucket ofsoapy water and a good sponge, but for medical billing services andphysician organizations it's a valuable technology d...
Insurance software and e-commerce provider Ebix, Inc. has signed a deal to acquire Pittsburgh based-Acclamation Systems, a provider of SaaS-based healthcare benefits and claims management software....
The growth of retail clinics and medical tourism shows that patients are seeking more alternative means of care and at lower costs - a trend that may be an opportunity for providers to shift toward a...
The South Carolina Hospital Association has partnered with Nashville, Tenn.-based nTelagent, Inc. in an effort to reduce bad debt and increase front-end collections for member hospitals. The...