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Raleigh, N.C.-based DocSite, a provider of Web-based patient registries and point-of-care decision support to the healthcare market, has announced that Middlesex Professional Services, Inc., an...
CHARLESTON, SC – As more and more Americans adopt a “do-it-yourself” attitude toward the healthcare market, providers are realizing that they can’t sit back and wait for the bu...
WASHINGTON – Premier, Inc. recently announced results of a study on Medicare hospital pay-for- performance revealing improved quality of care, lower costs and declining patient mortality rates....
CHICAGO – The American Medical Association continues to come out swinging against the latest step in the consolidation in the health insurance market. The Chicago-based professiona...
ELYRIA, OH – EMH Regional Healthcare System and Columbus Regional Hospital will tackle bad debt issues using TransUnion’s Healthcare Revenue Cycle Platform, which is designed to streamline...
Despite the promise of a value-based purchasing approach for paying the nation's hospitals, the nation still has a ways to go in designing a system that is accurate and effective....
NEW YORK – An appeals court ruling in New York may throw into question whether physicians with admitting privileges could be considered employees of the hospitals at which they have privileges....
OTHER THAN A SHIFT from fee-for-service to managed care, the private healthcare financing system has pretty much operated the same way for decades: Employers buy health insurance for workers, provider...
A RECENT SURVEY using data from 2006 suggests that physician-owned practices are closing the gap with hospital- and integrated system-owned (IDS) practices with regard to salary compensation....
THERE ARE GOOD WAYS to restrain healthcare spending. And then there are ways that are you don’t even dare mention, not in polite company. This column could be construed as coming...