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By Bernie Monegain | 01:00 am | June 24, 2008
More than 27,000 healthcare providers who received Medicare payments in 2006 together owe the government more than $2 billion in back taxes, according to a new report from the Government Accountabilit...
By Molly Merrill | 01:00 am | June 23, 2008
The Healthcare Financial Management Association's Annual National Institute (ANI) kicks off today in Las Vegas where more than 5,000 healthcare financial professionals are expected to gather at the Ma...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | June 23, 2008
Emdeon Business Services of Nashville, Tenn. has announced that it has processed its one billionth pharmacy claim for the U.S. Department of Defense through the Pharmacy Data Transaction Service (PDTS...
By Bernie Monegain | 01:00 am | June 23, 2008
Community Medical Centers, a 727-bed not-for-profit health system in California's San Joaquin Valley, plans to streamline its business processes with new technology.St. Paul, Minn-based Lawso...
By Patty Enrado | 01:00 am | June 23, 2008
Healthcare stakeholders should welcome disruption as an opportunity to advance the industry, a Harvard Business School professor told conference attendees on Friday, the final day of AHIP Institute 20...
By Bernie Monegain | 01:00 am | June 23, 2008
Sun Capital HealthCare Inc. is among the 400 vendors exhibiting their services and technology at the Annual National Institute of the Healthcare Financial Management Association this week in Las Vegas...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | June 20, 2008
One of the largest companies in the home healthcare space will be taken over by an investment firm for $1.6 billion.Publicly held Apria Healthcare Group Inc. on Thursday agreed to be acquired...
By Patty Enrado | 01:00 am | June 20, 2008
More than 1,000 protesters calling for a single-payer healthcare system converged Thursday outside the Moscone Convention Center, where the America's Health Insurance Plans annual conference is being...
By Molly Merrill | 01:00 am | June 20, 2008
The Johnson & Johnson Campaign for Nursing's Future held its "Promise of Nursing for Southern California" Gala this week, in which hundreds of nurses and healthcare professionals from re...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | June 19, 2008
Two senators on the powerful Senate Finance Committee introduced a bill Wednesday to delay implementation of the competitive bidding program for durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics and s...