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Three healthcare organizations have developed a Web-based tool to help physicians assess patient safety procedures, with an eye toward reducing practices’ liability exposure....
Professional medical organizations were quick to react to a rule from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that established a 5 percent reduction in physician payments for 2007....
Business Objects is betting that financial managers in hospitals are getting tired of guessing at the actual costs of providing services and procedures in their facilities. This...
Officials at Spectrum Health, an integrated delivery network in Michigan, could probably give 10 persuasive reasons why putting healthcare prices on a hospital Web site is a bad idea. Ba...
A trade group representing the nation's health insurers is questioning the accuracy of a mid-September report released by the Commonwealth Fund that contends American workers are finding healthcare co...
An Indiana company is marketing a new product that it says will save $9 billion to $38 billion over the next 10 years by streamlining the payment collection process for Medicare. Launched i...
LACK OF TRAINING LIMITS RETURN ON IT INVESTMENT While nurses appear ready to use healthcare information technology, have only a limited amount of ongoing training. A survey b...
Healthcare Finance News, the monthly finance news magazine for the healthcare industry that begins regular publication this month, has named its staff and their coverage areas. MedTech Publ...
Several major carriers are incorporating enrollee-reported health risk assessments, or HRAs, into their care or disease management programs to garner a more complete picture of their care needs....
Physician payment cuts may hit Medicare patient care Declining Medicare physician reimbursement may cause nearly 40 percent of medical group practices to limit the numb...