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By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | January 10, 2008
A massive rebuilding project expected to take at least a dozen years and cost more than $1 billion on the Stanford University campus received a significant shot in the arm from a private contributor....
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | January 10, 2008
A report issued on Thursday by the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services is calling on the agency to require that physician-owned specialty hospitals be able t...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | January 09, 2008
Healthcare spending in 2006 totaled about $2.1 trillion in 2006, according to figures released Tuesday by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. That works out to an average of $7,0...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | January 09, 2008
AcerMed, Inc., the once-prosperous ambulatory EMR/PM software vendor that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last September, has been sold. Ophthalmic Imaging Systems of Sacramento, Cali...
By Chelsey Ledue | 01:00 am | January 09, 2008
A second phase of a competitive bidding program, to be nationally implemented by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, will enable the agency to prevent dishonest suppliers from participatin...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | January 09, 2008
Americans will have to shoulder greater and greater healthcare costs into the future, with incomes unlikely to keep pace with the increases, a new study shows. The study, rel...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | January 08, 2008
Medical practices having problems with slow-paying customers or insurance collections might be advised to try a new solution that promises to speed up the process. Transworld...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | January 08, 2008
CHICAGO – Healthcare organizations are under the gun to increase efficiency and optimize investments in radiological systems, as cuts implemented this year in Medicare reimbursement for out...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | January 08, 2008
WASHINGTON – Congress used special methods late in December to approve a bill that would defer a 10.1 percent Medicare payment cut for physicians that was scheduled to take effect January 1....
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | January 08, 2008
Nextgen healthcare launches practice solutions NextGen Healthcare has launched NextGen Practice Solutions, a business division directed toward providing physician practices with revenue c...