Fred Bazzoli

NEARLY 30 YEARS AGO, my father was hospitalized for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis in a Chicago-area hospital. Not that I’m dating myself, but he was a patient in a four-person ward for nearl...

Aetna Inc. wants to give healthcare providers a way to connect directly to the insurer for the transmission of batch and real-time transactions. The service, called Aetna EDI...

RALEIGH, NC – Eight healthcare organizations in Wake County, N.C., are collaborating in hopes of improving coordination of care for their uninsured residents, thus providing better quality and c...

Grants are still a crucial source of funding for regional health information networks, and these organizations are slow to realize that they may need to depend on outside sources of funding to sustain...

One company's announcement that it is planning an initial public offering of stock is expected to throw a new wrinkle into a competitive group purchasing market. MedAssets...

WASHINGTON – The book appears complete on the federal government’s rules attempting to limit the possibility of financial conflict of interest by physicians who refer patients to their own...

WASHINGTON – The nation’s hospitals will get an extra year to adapt to Medicare’s new severity-adjusted payment system, according to a final rule released last month by the Centers f...

WASHINGTON – Hospital groups across the country are assessing the potential impact of the final rule issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on IPPS last month....

ATLANTA – The variability of payer decisions on coverage is no joke for providers. They often base treatment decisions on precertification efforts, then find that payers deny s...

CHARLOTTE, NC – The Premier Healthcare Alliance is looking for additional supporters as it plans to launch a project to test the viability of a program intended to increase patient safety and he...