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I think you've got one of the hardest jobs in the world. You have to figure out how to pay for exponentially intensifying technology in the face of looming doomsday demographics. Your customers often...

Changing coding methodologies remain as contentious and divisive as ever within the healthcare industry. The extent of that division has become more apparent than ever in recent...

Many believe healthcare issues will remain dead in the water despite the change in power ushered in by the 2006 midterm elections.  “The short answer is –...

An industry coalition is keeping the pressure on efforts to address steep cuts in payments for imaging services in physician offices, as required under the Deficit Reduction Act. The Acc...

Graphs from the October 2006 issue of Healthcare Finance News. If you have questions about the data, please contact editor Fred Bazzoli....

While Computer Sciences Corp.'s Blue Health Intelligence data warehouse has been deployed at only three Blues plans since July, the industry is beginning to recognize the benefits this type of warehou...

The first attempt to craft a bill requiring transparency in healthcare billing is receiving mostly positive grades from industry watchers. The bill (HR 6053) proposed by Rep. Mi...

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...

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....

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...