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By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | July 17, 2008
LAS VEGAS – McKesson officials have unveiled a new revenue management platform designed to help healthcare providers consolidate their old legacy and bolted-on systems.Released during t...
By Molly Merrill | 01:00 am | July 17, 2008
The Minnesota Bridges to Excellence program will recognize 104 clinics from 22 medical groups in Minnesota, western Wisconsin and North Dakota by paying physicians cash bonuses for meeting diabetes an...
By Chelsey Ledue | 01:00 am | July 16, 2008
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has doled out more than $36 million in bonus payments to many of the approximately 56,700 health professionals who satisfactorily reported quality inform...
By Molly Merrill | 01:00 am | July 16, 2008
The Convergys Corporation will acquire Dallas-based Intervoice, Inc. for $335 million in cash or $8.25 per share. The acquisition will expand Cincinnati-based Convergys' automated and live agent offer...
By Molly Merrill | 01:00 am | July 16, 2008
Estimated to be a $700 million project, Kaiser Permanente plans to open a new, energy-efficient hospital on its Fontana Medical Center campus in Southern California by the fall of 2013. The s...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | July 16, 2008
Healthvision is setting its sights on the Canadian market with the acquisition of MediSolution, Ltd.'s healthcare unit.In a deal announced Wednesday, the Dallas-based provider of healthcare I...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | July 16, 2008
Physicians can rest easy for at least another year. In a Tuesday night vote, Congress easily cleared the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 (H.R. 6331) with enough v...
By Chelsey Ledue | 01:00 am | July 15, 2008
Ten states have activated new substance abuse prevention and treatment health codes for screening and brief intervention (SBI) of Medicaid-eligible patients, according to Dr. Bertha K. Madras, deputy...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | July 15, 2008
The TriZetto Group's conversion from a public-traded company to a private concern is nearing its conclusion.At a special meeting held on July 14, shareholders representing 34.2 million shares...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | July 15, 2008
A new report by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services indicates the federal government recovered nearly $700 million in improper Medicare payments through its recovery audit contractors (RA...