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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 &#...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...