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Lawson offers new budgeting, planning tool ST. PAUL, MN – Lawson has announced the availability of its newest Enterprise Performance Management...
Where some providers measure their payment cycles in months, Harriet Oster does so in seconds. Oster, office manager at Lake Murray OB/GYN, has most of her claims to Blue Cross Blue S...
Healthcare spending for the year 2005 slowed for the third consecutive year and is growing at a rate that's comparable with the rest of the economy, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services anno...
While vendors talk of developing newer underlying technology and marrying clinical data with financial data, the heart of business decision support systems for hospitals is still determining the cost...
Responding to consistent and widespread concern over proposed cuts to physician Medicare payment rates, the lame-duck Congress passed on its last day, Dec. 9, legislation preventing cuts through 2007....
Congress needs to reform Medicare and Medicaid to improve their integrity and sustainability, according to a Nov. 17 report issued by the Government Accountability Office. "Absent ref...
Although the healthcare industry got a reprieve when Congress delayed a 5.1 percent Medicare physician rate cut until next year, financial experts say reductions are inevitable and providers still nee...
Provisions in the end-of-session bill passed by Congress provide a number of elements intended to stimulate the use of health savings accounts. HSA provisions added to the Ta...
Meeting to show progress on NHIN initiative The work of four consortia will be on display at the third NHIN Forum, scheduled for Jan. 25 and 26, sponsored by the Department of H...
Independence Blue Cross (IBC) will roll out a new benefits plan analysis tool to its Benefits Coding & Development department in the first quarter of 2007. Now with DST Health...