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By Gil Amoray | 01:00 am | May 07, 2008
PROCEDURAL AREAS are the heart of hospital operations. Surgical cases are a major contributor to hospitals’ net patient revenue. The total number of surgeries – inpatient and outpatient &#...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | May 07, 2008
New AHRQ Web resource targets provider savingsThe Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has launched the Health Care Innovations Exchange, the federal government's repository for succ...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | May 07, 2008
ANOTHER INSURER has said it will no longer pay for hospital treatment required after egregious mistakes made by hospital staff.Cigna HealthCare announced it is taking steps to stop reimbursin...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | May 07, 2008
CLEVELAND – There was no lack of data when the Cleveland Clinic tried to analyze why payers rejected its claims.The world-renowned organization had built a denial database to collect th...
By Chelsey Ledue | 01:00 am | May 06, 2008
Health insurance coverage and unpaid healthcare for full-time workers and their family members without employer coverage cost the U.S. public $45 billion a year, according to a report from The Commonw...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | May 06, 2008
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform expressed growing concern Tuesday that hospital emergency rooms are not ready to handle a mass casualty event such as a terrorist attack using co...
By Molly Merrill | 01:00 am | May 06, 2008
Panacea Healthcare Solutions, LLC and National Healthcare Payer Networks, LLC have formed a partnership to market The Providers Payer Network, or TPPN, a solution aimed at improving hospital reimburse...
By Molly Merrill | 01:00 am | May 05, 2008
InfoLogix, Inc., a vendor of enterprise mobility solutions for the healthcare and commercial industries, has acquired specialty consulting firm Delta Health Systems, Inc., a vendor focused on strategi...
By Chelsey Ledue | 01:00 am | May 05, 2008
The McKesson Corp., one of the nation's largest distributors of pharmaceutical drugs, will pay $13.25 million in civil penalties for alleged violations of its obligations under the Controlled Substanc...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | May 05, 2008
Affiliated Computer Sciences, Inc. of Dallas has announced an agreement to acquire the CompIQ Corp. of Irvine, Calif., a provider of workers' compensation claims review, re-pricing and software...