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By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | September 04, 2007
One company's announcement that it is planning an initial public offering of stock is expected to throw a new wrinkle into a competitive group purchasing market. MedAssets...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | September 04, 2007
MedAssets, an Alpharetta, Ga.-based provider of cash management software, has filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering (IPO) of common sto...
By Jack Beaudoin | 01:00 am | August 31, 2007
Psychiatrist and patients rights advocate Deborah Peel says the Aug. 30 report on the Virginia Tech shooting turns a blind eye to the root cause of the tragedy. "Frankly, this pan...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | August 31, 2007
WASHINGTON – The book appears complete on the federal government’s rules attempting to limit the possibility of financial conflict of interest by physicians who refer patients to their own...
By Chip Means | 01:00 am | August 30, 2007
The State Children's Health Insurance Program, which has provided health insurance for some 6.6 million children since 1997, expires one month from today. Two renewal proposals in Congress have stakeh...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | August 28, 2007
The number of Americans without health insurance has risen by more than two million since 2005 and among them are 700,000 more uninsured children, the U.S. Census Bureau has announced....
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | August 27, 2007
WILMINGTON, OH – Even as a health system makes a big financial commitment to move to an electronic health records system, it still has to find a way to provide the “look and feel” of...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | August 27, 2007
CHICAGO – An Internal Revenue Service ruling in May that encouraged not-for-profit hospitals to provide healthcare information technology to medical staff physicians is paying off for Allscripts...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | August 27, 2007
ATLANTA – The variability of payer decisions on coverage is no joke for providers. They often base treatment decisions on precertification efforts, then find that payers deny s...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | August 27, 2007
Contributed by Rick IngrahamThe healthcare industry has reached a watershed moment in which payers and providers are truly beginning to invest in the development of information technology in...