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By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | June 07, 2007
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...
By Chip Means | 01:00 am | June 07, 2007
WASHINGTON – A bipartisan bill introduced shortly before the start of National Nurses Week in May would protect nurses from working mandatory overtime hours, one of the the more controversial me...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | June 07, 2007
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...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | June 07, 2007
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....
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | June 07, 2007
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....
By John Andrews | 01:00 am | June 07, 2007
Nothing tears at a healthcare provider’s conscience like debt collection. On one hand, clinicians tend to be compassionate by nature, and their training emphasizes healing patients above all els...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | June 07, 2007
WASHINGTON  – The use of healthcare IT can lower costs and also deliver better care, says Brent James, MD, vice president of medical research and executive director of the Institute of H...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | June 06, 2007
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...
By Patty Enrado | 01:00 am | June 06, 2007
WASHINGTON – The AARP is expanding its relationship with UnitedHealthcare and creating a partnership with Aetna to offer AARP-branded HMO products to Medicare recipients. While som...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | June 06, 2007
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...