Healthcare Finance Staff

ACCURO HEALTHCARE AQUIRES WOODMOOR GROUP Accuro Healthcare Solutions, Inc. of Dallas has acquired The Woodmoor Group, inc., a Raleigh, N.C.-based provider of Web-based accounts receiv...

AHA ASKS CMS FOR HOSPITAL INPUT ON MAC SELECTION The American Hospital Association is asking the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to allow hospitals and other providers to par...

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 visits and appointment r...

P4P COULD HURT POOR, MINORITIES, STUDY SUGGESTS While pay-for-performance (P4P) and public quality-reporting programs may contribute to the improvement of healthcare qualit...

Contributed by Mark Sedlmeier Healthcare equipment financing is surging forward to keep pace with unprecedented spending, with institutions designating more capital for equipment than ev...

Contributed By Elizabeth W. Boehm & Bruce D. Temkin Health plan executives are confronted by a daunting challenge – they face increasing cost pressures, more complex plan designs, ris...

The Authentidate Holding Corp. of Berkeley Heights, N.J., a vendor of secure enterprise workflow management applications, has announced that American HomePatient, Inc., one of the nat...

Atlanta-based MedAssets, Inc. has announced an agreement to acquire XactiMed, a provider of Web-based revenue cycle technologies and services to the healthcare indust...

Lighthouse1 of Minneapolis, a provider of consumer-driven healthcare benefits administration solutions, has announced a partnership with Avon, Conn.-based Evolution Benefits...

By Rishabh Mehrotra and Newt Gingrich What does the ideal Medicaid program look like? The answer is not obvious. One key challenge for policymak...