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By Patty Enrado | 01:00 am | May 03, 2007
LOS ANGELES – The California Heart Center Foundation implemented a standalone dashboard to monitor its productivity, financial performance and referrals from outside physicians almost a yea...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | May 03, 2007
LONG BEACH, CA – Telemedicine, long believed to have the potential for facilitating healthcare treatment, may be about to play a significant role in ambulatory settings. According to...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | May 03, 2007
Contributed by Mark Sedlmeier Healthcare equipment financing is surging forward to keep pace with unprecedented spending, with institutions designating more capital for equipment than ev...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | May 03, 2007
More than half of the California physicians involved in a year-old pay-for-performance consortium have reported using new healthcare information technology to schedule patient visits and appointment r...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | May 03, 2007
PHILADELPHIA – In expanding its use of a document management system to hold and share patient information, the Albert Einstein Healthcare Network also is seeing a payoff in efficiency and r...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | May 03, 2007
WASHINGTON – Providers and payers making a good-faith effort to implement the national provider identifier will have as much as 12 more months to start using the identifiers on claim forms....
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | May 03, 2007
WASHINGTON – The nation’s not-for-profit hospitals are likely to face more scrutiny into whether the services they provide merit their tax-exempt status. The Government Accou...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | May 03, 2007
Today there is hardly a more hotly debated topic than pay-for-performance, or P4P. And yet, despite all the brouhaha, it’s still only a distant speck on the horizon. In line with t...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | May 03, 2007
The federal government should do a better job of overseeing state Medicaid finances, according to a report issued Monday by the General Accountability Office. The 54-page GA...
WASHINGTON - Amid industry concerns, a new pay-for-performance program has been outlined by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The voluntary 2007 Physician Quality Reporting Initiati...