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LAS VEGAS - Experian Health, a technology vendor that specializes in automating and integrating revenue cycle and patient care coordination, has announced at HIMSS16 that it has adopted the brand Experian Health across its entire portfolio of healthcare businesses.
While startups and other corporate evangelicals may think it's better to fail fast, innovation models in healthcare would do better to establish a culture of learning instead of one that celebrates failure, according to Todd Dunn, director of innovation at Utah-based Intermountain Healthcare.
The head of Aetna Inc., the nation's third-largest health insurer, said he supports insurance exchanges, even though he questioned their sustainability earlier this month and lost money in the marketplaces last year.
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McKesson, a healthcare services and information technology company, has released an online tool that provides information needed to identify purchase trends and evaluate the impact of price fluctuations.
St. Clair Hospital in Pittsburgh and Experian Health, the healthcare-focused business branch of Experian, announced a new online cost transparency tool Monday called Patient Estimates that will make it easier for patients to get a clear picture of what their out-of-pocket financial obligations will be for services at the Hospital or it's outpatient centers.
Tenet Healthcare Corporation has offered to pay $238 million to resolve a False Claims Act lawsuit alleging that it received kickbacks for maternity referrals by four of its Georgia hospitals, the company revealed Monday in its fourth-quarter and full-year financial results reported to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
If a physicians' group, hospital or revenue cycle management company can prove that its paper-based billing method is faster and less expensive than a paperless alternative, Tom Furr has a $10,000 check with their name on it. That's the premise behind the "$10,000 Healthcare Billing Challenge" being held by PatientPay, of which Furr is CEO.
Florida insurance regulators have approved Aetna's acquisition of Humana's affiliates there, but with conditions, according to a consent order issued last week.
Prescription drug spending in the U.S. rose 12 percent in 2014, reaching nearly $300 billion, the latest issue of the Journal of Managed Care and Specialty Pharmacy showed.