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By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | May 21, 2007
A coordinated effort is under way in Florida to move more physicians to use electronic prescribing. The initiative, called ePrescribe Florida, followed a new tack in...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | May 21, 2007
GE Healthcare Financial Services and the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) have announced the release of "Healthcare Payment: Goals, Trends and Strategies," the first...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | May 18, 2007
The nation's federal healthcare IT czar, Robert Kolodner, MD, said today that the government's entire focus for healthcare IT advancement is to improve care. Kolodner, pro...
By Chip Means | 01:00 am | May 16, 2007
Things aren't looking any better for the United States healthcare system since the last time it was compared with those of other industrialized nations. An update to an ongoi...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | May 14, 2007
Benefitfocus of Charleston, S.C. has selected 2007 Data Warehouse software from York, Pa.-based ProfitBase to further enhance the company's Business Intelligence prog...
By Chip Means | 01:00 am | May 14, 2007
Pay-for-performance programs may be ineffective in motivating physician quality improvement because they're too generic and stingy. A new study published in th...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | May 14, 2007
Despite recent survey findings that show 80 percent of the 24 million seniors enrolled in Medicare Part D are satisfied with the program, the Senate Finance Committee has concerns that vulnerable low-...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | May 11, 2007
Donations of information technology and supporting services to not-for-profit healthcare providers will not be seen as kickbacks that could jeopardize providers' not-for-profit status, a memorandum is...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | May 11, 2007
Even with a contingency plan in place to give the healthcare industry time to implement national provider identifiers, the federal government is keeping the pressure on to move the industry to adoptio...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | May 10, 2007
A cooperative effort between federal agencies and state and local enforcement personnel has netted about 40 arrests in south Florida, as a recently launched Medicare "strike force" begins to target fr...