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WORTHINGTON, OH – A popular measure of the value that hospitals pour back into their communities suggests that organizations have been able to provide more benefit as profitability increases....
Physicians will be able to evaluate medical processes in terms of patient safety liability with a new Web-based tool developed by the MGMA, Health Research and Educational Trust and the Institute for...
Quality of care factors will increasingly affect the claims submission and payment process for healthcare providers.The impact of quality will range from coding requirements to the use of inc...
The 2006 healthcare bond volume is strong despite significant declines since 2005 - a year that saw record numbers in borrowing for healthcare organizations and $40 billion in issuance. Last year̵...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will continue to develop an expanded demonstration project testing a pay-for-performance approach for reimbursing the nation's hospitals.The ini...
Health plans are enjoying healthy profits across the board, reporting robust third quarter earnings. Increased Medicare enrollment, streamlined operations and opportunities in the...
Computer Sciences Corp. has signed on to develop an IT data warehouse for Care Focused Purchasing, a not-for-profit entity comprising more than 50 employers and seven national and regional health plan...
Although government and industry officials have been touting the patient safety benefits of electronic health records, physician practices have been slow to adopt the technology – primarily beca...
Softheon, Inc. of Hauppage, N.Y., a provider of business process software solutions for healthcare payers, is partnering with Legacy Consulting Services of Plano, Tex...
The payment approach used by Medicare to reimburse freestanding ambulatory surgical centers should be changed to match how the program pays for procedures in surgery centers attached to hospitals....