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The development of a new tool for measuring return on investment in hospital-based pay-for- performance (P4P) programs has been announced by the Leapfrog Group, HSM Group and Discern Consulting....
IN MID-JANUARY, Naples, Fla.-based Health Management Associates reported that it expects to record $200 million in bad debt expense in the fourth quarter due to an increase in self-paying patients....
Consorta members can get food service software Hospitals belonging to Consorta Inc., a Schaumburg, Ill.-based group purchasing organization, will receive discounted pricing on sof...
Contributed by Fred Bazzoli and Chip Means PLANO, TX – With another of the nation’s largest hospital chains announcing a multi-billion dollar buyout last month,...
SAN FRANCISCO – Community health centers can gain significant quality benefits from the use of electronic health records, but these benefits do not cover the costs of going paperless, reported a...
DAYTON, OH – While e-prescribing initiatives are becoming more prevalent, the Anthem National Accounts pilot involving approximately 100 physicians in Dayton and Youngstown, Ohio eschews a healt...
NEW YORK – Coordination of care among providers could be improved if financial incentives were properly aligned, recent research suggests. “Although accountable for tr...
MODESTO, CA – At a time when health plans are trying to cut administrative costs by pushing member self-service to member portals, one health plan has opened a retail storefront to reach out to...
The current Medicare physician payment formula is "fatally flawed" and should be replaced with one that better reflects the reality of practice cost increases, say doctors, congressional advisors, law...
A program that provides financial incentives to hospitals that meet quality of care standards has been financially restructured and extended three years by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Servic...