News

SAN DIEGO – A financial services firm and a healthcare services and technology company are partnering to offer an integrated set of claim and payment processing solutions and plan to targ...

HARRISBURG, PA – A new bill introduced in Pennsylvania’s House would have the state pay the balances of medical students’ loans for graduates who agree to practice medicine in t...

The world of strategic planning in healthcare has become more complex, with concepts such as “scenario planning,” “game theory” and “nonlinear analysis” being discu...

PLANO, TX – Shareholders of Triad Hospitals Inc. last month approved the company’s acquisition by Community Health Systems Inc. Under terms of the merger agreement, Triad shareho...

Workplace options unveils increased risk HRA Workplace Options, a Raleigh, N.C.-based provider of work-life employee benefits, is unveiling a health risk assessment (HRA) to hel...

Is care for senior citizens at risk? At the very least, the threat of growing limitations in the availability of care is, depending on your point of view, being suggested as a possibilit...

CHATTANOOGA, TN – Although the technology strategies vary, payers are either starting or expanding pilot programs that adjudicate claims in real time for providers. While it’s too...

Contributed by Ron Rittenmeyer The power in technology is not the technology itself. The power in technology is taking your business and making it better than anyone could have ever conside...

Call center experience could cost customers A recent study showed that 61 percent of customers who have a bad experience with a call center of an insurance company are at risk of...

WASHINGTON – The Internal Revenue Service is raising the bar for not-for-profit hospitals and healthcare organizations reporting information on annual tax returns. The IRS las...