Healthcare Finance Staff

Contributed by Joanne McCool If you cherish your sanity, this is no time to be a hospital administrator. The number of hospitals operating in the red demonstrates the mounting financial obs...

HHS announces plan to release NPI, related data The Department of Health and Human Services has outlined its plan for what provider information will be attached to the national prov...

Watertown, Mass.-based athenahealth, Inc has signed a deal with the Colorado Medical Society, based in Denver, to allow the company's on-demand clinical and revenue-cycle management s...

GE Healthcare Financial Services and the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) have announced the release of "Healthcare Payment: Goals, Trends and Strategies," the first...

Benefitfocus of Charleston, S.C. has selected 2007 Data Warehouse software from York, Pa.-based ProfitBase to further enhance the company's Business Intelligence prog...

Perceptive Software of Shawnee, Kan. has announced that Orlando Regional Healthcare in Florida has deployed the company's ImageNow document management suite in its accounts payable de...

WATERTOWN, MA – athenahealth, Inc. has jumped into the pay-for-performance pool with both feet, announcing in March that its Web-based athenaNet practice management system includes physician qua...

BLUE BELL, PA – When a medical bill goes unpaid, the only one to benefit is the collection agency. That’s why insurers and health plans are looking for any edge to make sure patients...

CMS ISSUES FINAL RULE ON MEDICARE BIDDING PROGRAM The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a final rule to implement a new competitive bidding program in Medic...

PA. PROVIDER BUYS HOUSTON HEALTH SYSTEM FOR $49M Select Medical Corp of Pennsylvania, a leading provider of specialty healthcare, has purchased Nexus Health Systems of Houston, a pr...