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BancTec, a provider of advanced, high volume document and payment processing services and solutions, has signed a five-year agreement with Enterprise Bank and Trust, a subsidiary of Enterprise Financi...

Hospitals that look to third parties to collect overdue bills often struggle with maintaining oversight of collection agencies' activities.A new approach from Waltham, Mass.-based Connance I...

The SCIOinspire Corp., a Hartford, Conn.-based provider of healthcare cost-containment services, has acquired SOCRATES, INC., a provider of coordination of benefits (COB), subrogation...

Even as online job postings have declined over the last year, the effort to use the Web to fill healthcare jobs remains steady.Some 219,000 jobs for healthcare practitioners were listed onlin...

The Integrated Healthcare Association is planning to implement a statewide collection of comparative data, evaluate purchasing and payment systems and develop a new episode-based payment method for me...

Faced with the prospect of declaring bankruptcy and after deciding to dump most of its overseas interests, Merge Healthcare, Inc. has agreed to a $20 million financing deal in an effort to shore up it...

The TriZetto Group is expanding its access to the European market with a new five-year deal with Unisys Nederland NV to market, distribute and maintain its software solutions to health insurers in the...

CONSIDER PAYER-PROVIDER CONTRACTS  to be microcosms of overall industry trends. As concepts like pay-for-performance and consumer-directed health plans gain traction in the healthcare environment...

Supply-CHAIN MANAGEMENT (SCM) for hospitals is undergoing a “substantial reinvention,” said Eugene Schneller, professor and director of Health Sector Supply Chain Management and Policy...

A new study shows that healthcare is the largest private-sector employer in Michigan, boosting the state's economy by nearly $36.7 billion a year. The study also revealed that the state spent...