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Product Spotlight: Contract Management

 Chip Means May 05, 2009
The May 2009 Product Spotlight looks at contract management in healthcare organizations.
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GPOs work overtime to save money for members

 John Andrews May 04, 2009
Recessions have a way of forcing everyone to rethink their expenditures and the prudence of each purchase. While hospitals historically haven’t had to do that with regularity, they definitely are doing it now and they are calling on group purchasing organizations and vendors to help them.
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API Healthcare’s new focus is on labor management

 Healthcare Finance News Staff May 04, 2009
Most healthcare vendors are focused these days on improving the physician-patient relationship. API Healthcare finds its niche in looking in the other direction.
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Reva Systems targets healthcare assets

 Healthcare Finance News Staff May 04, 2009
With new funding, new leadership and a year of positive growth in the books, Reva Systems is entering the healthcare market on a high note.
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Portico acquires Kryptiq’s Choreo

 Eric Wicklund May 04, 2009
A recent deal between Portico Systems and Kryptiq helps one company almost double its client base, while allowing the other to strengthen its focus.
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American Well opens ‘virtual clinic’ in Minnesota

 Richard Pizzi May 04, 2009
Patients in Minnesota will be the first in the continental United States to have real-time access to a “virtual clinic,” where they can talk with a physician who can make diagnoses and prescribe medications via the Web or a phone.
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Study: N.Y. counties vary on nursing home Medicaid denials

 Richard Pizzi May 04, 2009
During the last 10 years, New York counties outside New York City cited the transfer of personal financial assets in denying an average of 7 percent of applications for Medicaid coverage of nursing home care.
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Americans favor ‘shared responsibility’

 Richard Pizzi May 04, 2009
Most Americans don’t support an “individual mandate” for health insurance, although they do support a “shared-responsibility” plan that combines an individual mandate with expanded roles for employers, government and insurers.
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Physicians can take more tax deductions

 Chelsey Ledue May 04, 2009
Now that tax season is over, it’s time for physician practices to start saving receipts and filing records again. There are more than 400 possible deductions that practices can take, although most physicians only know of a few common ones.
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Survey: Large discrepancies in pay of medical directors

 Chelsey Ledue May 04, 2009
Physician compensation for medical directorships in non-hospital-owned group practices is greater than in hospital-owned practices for all specialties except primary care, according to the Medical Group Management Association’s “Medical Directorship/On Call Compensation Survey: 2009 Report Based on 2008 Data.”
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Recruitment costly for health systems

 Chelsey Ledue May 04, 2009
With the current physician shortage and the ongoing economic recession, the recruitment department in a healthcare organization has become very important.
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CMS won’t budge on DME competitive bidding rule

 Chelsey Ledue May 04, 2009
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid did not rescind the controversial competitive bidding rule before it was scheduled to go into effect on April 18, despite urging from Congress.
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Auto workers get free care at Mich. hospital

 Richard Pizzi May 04, 2009
The medical staff at Oakwood Hospital & Medical Center in Dearborn, Mich., will soon offer medical care to recently laid-off Ford Motor Company workers at no cost.
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Sloan-Kettering signs new revenue cycle deal

 Richard Pizzi May 04, 2009
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, one of the nation’s premiere cancer treatment centers, has signed a multi-year contract for revenue cycle management and collection management services.
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AHA survey: Economic crisis takes its toll

 Diana Manos May 04, 2009
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Florida Medicaid cuts would harm hospitals, communities

 Richard Pizzi May 04, 2009
Proposed cuts in Medicaid spending at Florida hospitals would hurt struggling local economies, costing thousands of high-wage jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars in related economic activity annually, according to a University of Florida study.
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Ohio hospitals under strain

 Richard Pizzi May 04, 2009
The depressed economy threatens the financial health of Ohio hospitals, with many projecting losses and cuts in staff, programs and construction projects, according to the Ohio Hospital Association.
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Total margins continue to shrink

 Richard Pizzi May 04, 2009
Hospitals across the eastern half of the United States are feeling the pain of recession, and in some cases are seeing margins fall to unprecedented lows.
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NewsMaker Interview: James Levett, MD

 Healthcare Finance News Staff May 04, 2009
NewsMaker Interview: James Levett, MD, chief medical officer, The Physicians' Clinic of Iowa (Cedar Rapids), and chairman, American Society for Quality's healthcare division
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Get ready for value-based purchasing

 Healthcare Finance News Staff May 04, 2009
Commentary from Hal Andrews, chief executive officer of Data Advantage, LLC based in Nashville, Tenn.
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