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By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | March 07, 2008
EL SEGUNDO, CA – A new report says hospitals have yet to fully implement existing technologies that can help them deploy more efficient care strategies. Hospitals are under r...
By Patty Enrado | 01:00 am | March 07, 2008
With provider billing already incredibly complex, when you throw in consumer-directed healthcare and the cost shift to consumers, managing accounts receivable has become...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | March 07, 2008
GRAND RAPIDS, MI  – In an effort to improve transparency of its prices, Spectrum Health last month began publicizing the average prices paid by major payers for 250 common procedures....
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | March 07, 2008
MPV signs contracts with 4 Western health groups Medical Present Value, Inc., of Austin, Texas has announced that four Western-based multi-specialty groups have signed contracts to impl...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | March 07, 2008
PLANO, TX – Not-for-profit hospitals that used to fear the mention of investor-owned chains knocking on their doors might have a different reaction to Legacy Hospital Partners Inc....
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | March 07, 2008
CHICAGO – Allscripts is teaming up with a Hawaii-based physician management services organization on a new product designed to ease pay-for-performance reporting guidelines for physicians....
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | March 07, 2008
Healthcare expenditures outpace inflation, GDP Health expenditures are still rising faster than the rate of inflation, and that rate of increase is expected to remain steady for the n...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | March 07, 2008
ALPHARETTA, GA – MedAssets Inc., which became a publicly owned company in mid-December through an initial public offering of stock, is making some noise. That’s quite a cont...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | March 07, 2008
IT  SEEMS  MOST EVERYONE is willing to talk about the 800-pound gorilla known as U.S. healthcare spending. But who will really step up and dare to move it? That will likely be the question o...
By Patty Enrado | 01:00 am | March 07, 2008
WASHINGTON – As part of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, Congress appropriated $50 million each year in fiscal years 2007 and 2008 and $75 million for 2009 and each subsequent year for the Cen...