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MINNEAPOLIS – Consumer-directed health plans, or CDHPs, have garnered a lot of attention and growth in the last couple of years, but industry experts say the market is still untapped....
IRVINE, CA – A recent study of standardized provider identification numbers released by the federal government questions the accuracy of the data associated with those numbers. Some 1...
ORLANDO, FL – More than $1 billion worth of drug orders from hundreds of community oncologists across the United States will be offered up for bid on Tuesday, Dec. 11 in the first electronic auc...
Contributed By Ron Nall It’s amazing how much more efficient a little information sharing can make things. And nowhere is this currently more applicable than in...
DALLAS – The timing couldn’t be better. One day after U.S. Preventive Medicine announced its acquisition of Specialty Disease Management Services, Inc., a national provider of chr...
CHICAGO – Hospitals are seeing an increase in self-paying customers, increasing the stakes for collections and holding the potential to increase days in accounts receivable. A pane...
Initiate Systems unveils Master Data Service 8.0 LONDON – Initiate Systems Inc. has launched Master Data Service 8.0, a comprehensive master data management (MDM) platform...
CHICAGO – More hospitals are selling uncollectible bad debt to companies that specialize in those efforts. Such debt sales, while only for a small percentage of the value of the...
AS IDEAS GO, pay for performance is a simple one – using a financial reward to inspire high quality patient care. Implementing it throughout a healthcare organization, however, is proving to be...
AUGUSTA, ME – The burden of replacing a financial management system turned into an opportunity for MaineGeneral Health. The Augusta, Me.-based healthcare system went...