Website of the Month: Healthcare Financial Management Association [CPA Journal ... Insurance News Net (press release) By Anders, Susan B The Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) is a membership organization of healthcare financial management professionals - from accountants to chief financial officers - that covers medical practices, hospitals, ... |
HP Announces Healthcare Alliance Program MarketWatch (press release) Members of the HP Healthcare Alliance program include renowned healthcare providers, such as Quest Diagnostics and its Care360(R) EHR, Greenway Medical Technologies and Central Logic. HP and several software partners will exhibit their joint offerings ... |
Medco Launches Medical Benefit Management Program to Better Manage Specialty ... MarketWatch (press release) "We developed this program in order to extend the best practices in specialty pharmacy to major medical coverage," said Frank Sheehy, president of Accredo. "Historically, health insurers and other payors have not focused on the prevention of waste or ... |
INSERTING and REPLACING Cigna Study Shows Consumer-Driven Health Plans Can ... MarketWatch (press release) Cost reductions were achieved without employers shifting out-of-pocket health expenses to their employees. -- Received higher levels of care: Cigna CDHP customers had consistent or higher use of over 400 evidenced-based medical best practices (than ... |
ICD-10 Deadline May Be Pushed Back, CMS Says Medscape February 14, 2012 — In response to complaints from organized medicine, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will consider pushing back the deadline for physicians and other providers to start using a voluminous set of diagnostic codes ... |
XL Group and Hays Affinity Solutions Launch New Dental Professional Liability ... MarketWatch (press release) 15, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- XL Group plc's /quotes/zigman/602986/quotes/nls/xl XL +1.04% Select Professional insurance underwriting unit and Hays Affinity Solutions, a division of Hays Companies of Minneapolis, Minn., are offering professional ... |
Cigna Study Shows Consumer-Driven Health Plans Can Save $9700 Per Employee ... MarketWatch (press release) When American workers engage in health-smart habits offered in consumer-driven health plans (CDHP), they reduced their health risks and lower their total medical costs an average of $9700 per employee over a five-year period, according to a recent ... |
Huntington to Expand Specialized Healthcare Banking Services Throughout Its ... MarketWatch (press release) ... business banking, insurance and equipment finance services. The bank has hired Daniel Storer to drive the expansion, which will focus on key subsectors including hospitals, medical and dental groups, senior living and long-term care facilities, ... |
WBUR Poll: Most Mass. Residents Support State Health Care Law WBUR Without some form of socialized medicine, we are all sentenced to choosing between bankrupting ourselves and our families vs. paying exorbitant insurance vs. a “slow and painful death” at home. As Kevorkian said — after his early release after 8 of ... |
Aetna Reports Fourth-Quarter and Full-Year 2011 Results MarketWatch (press release) "In the fourth quarter and throughout the year, Aetna's commercial underwriting performance benefited from low medical utilization, our pricing discipline, our medical cost management strategies and our unit cost controls," said Joseph M. Zubretsky, ... |
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