Healthcare Finance Staff
InstaMed receives investment from U.S. Bank Philadelphia-based InstaMed has received an equity investment from the Minneapolis-based U.S. Bank as part of its third round of funding....
SAN JOSE, CA – More than half of the California physicians involved in a year-old pay-for-performance consortium have reported using new healthcare information technology to schedule patient vis...
HILLSBORO, OR – Luis Machuca is a man with a mission. He wants the nation’s health plans to realize they won’t survive without change. “They haven’t changed...
DALLAS – Roughly 70 percent of the nation’s physicians work in a small practice, defined as having 10 or fewer doctors on staff. And many of them don’t have billing software....
WellPoint health ousts CFO over misconduct Top executives at WellPoint Health Networks Inc. have requested and received the resignation of David C. Colby, the company’s chief...
CMS proposes pay increase for nursing homes The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has proposed a $690 million increase in Medicare payments to nursing homes for fiscal year 2...
WASHINGTON – Provider reimbursements calculated under the fee-for-service methodology have been the subject of industry-wide disdain for a variety of reasons related to physician risk, the high...
Walgreens a competitor with Take Care purchase The Walgreens Co., a Deerfield, Ill.-based company that operates 5,700 pharmacies nationwide, last month purchased Take Care Health Sy...
Contributed by Robert Tennant It seemed straightforward and simple: transition all providers from the current cumbersome system of multiple proprietary identification numbers to a singl...
NextGen Healthcare Information Systems of Horsham, Pa. has announced that it has released its data capture tools to help physician practices prepare for federal pay-for-performance (P...