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As financial and societal impact of chronic pain continues to expand in scope, healthcare delivery systems are seeking more effective and proven ways to manage the problem as demand for specialized pa...
Improving the claims submission process has paid benefits for a hospital chain as it seeks to improve its facilities' performances. And Michael De La Garza expects that improving the claims...
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...
Congress may have changed as a result of the 2006 elections, but few financial managers see much hope that legislators will permanently address cuts threatened each year as part of the government's Su...
TRENTON, NJ – New Jersey is one of at least 24 states considering universal health coverage along the lines of the plan adopted by Massachusetts in April 2006(see story above). According to the...
Large medical group practices have proven they can adjust to respond to a variety of quality and cost-containment incentives, in one of the first tests of a pay-for-performance approach....
A recent commonwealth fund study of Medicare Advantage plans is "based on flawed methodology," America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) president Karen Ignagni said in a Nov. 30 press release....
Physicians may face a 10 percent cut in Medicare reimbursements in 2008, the Congressional Budget warns, thanks in part to Congress' December action to defer a scheduled 5 percent cut....
Employers are proactively taking on spiraling healthcare costs. That's the theme of the personal health record (PHR) initiative announced in December by Intel Corp., Wal-Mart, Pitney Bowes, British Pe...
SAN Jose, CA – A global business intelligence company with its toe in the healthcare finance pool could be diving into the market in the near future, thanks to a newly announced merger....