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Suncoast takes a shine to RCM tools

 Chelsey Ledue October 03, 2008
ST. PETERSBURG, FL – Suncoast Medical Clinic has replaced its Web-hosted practice management system with athenaCollectorSM, a Web-based revenue cycle management system from athenahealth....
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Solutions and Services News Briefs

 Healthcare Finance News Staff July 02, 2008
MPV automates processes for 3 medical groupsMedical Present Value, Inc. of Austin, Texas has added three academic medical groups to its list of customers seeking to automate payer contract...
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Mixed results as NPI deadline passes

 Patty Enrado July 01, 2008
WASHINGTON – As expected, the number of rejected claims spiked following the May 23rd deadline requiring all providers to use their National Provider Identifier number on electronic transactions...
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Vendor Notebook - Kronos tool used for nurse ratio reporting

 Healthcare Finance News Staff June 30, 2008
Kronos, Inc. has announced that Norton Healthcare of Louisville, Ky. is using the company’s labor productivity and workforce analytics tool to publicly report nurse staffing ratios to illustrate...
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Medical banking project seeks to organize denial codes

 Fred Bazzoli May 29, 2008
MARIETTA, GA – A medical banking organization is leading efforts to standardize the use of denial codes by health plans.Agreement on a taxonomy of denial codes will provide benefits to...
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Bank subsidiary offers application to help match payments, remittances

 Fred Bazzoli May 15, 2008
A subsidiary of a large banking firm is introducing a new tool to its medical claims processing service intended to facilitate claims payment posting.JP Morgan Healthcare Solutions on Wednesd...
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NCPDP offering new data resource on nation's pharmacies

 Fred Bazzoli May 07, 2008
The National Council for Prescription Drug Programs is launching a next-generation database and communication product that it says will streamline claims processing and enable faster reimbursement....
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Vendor Notebook - Cigna acquires Great-West

 Healthcare Finance News Staff April 07, 2008
CIGNA, based in Philadelphia, has announced the acquisition of Great-West Healthcare, the Denver-based healthcare division of the Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance Company, for $1.5 bi...
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Hospital exec survey turns tables on insurer performance

 Fred Bazzoli March 06, 2008
Hospital executives are exacting some revenge on payers that they perceive as being difficult to work with. Responses from 113 hospital executives, representing about 500 hospit...
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Hospitals face risk management head-on

 Patty Enrado August 27, 2007
WASHINGTON – When the landmark 1999 Institute of Medicine report To Err is Human revealed that tens of thousands of people die each year from medical errors, the news was not a surprise...
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NPI transition will take time: start now, experts say

 Diana Manos July 20, 2007
Providers should not procrastinate using National Provider Identifiers, according to speakers at Thursday's Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange NPI Forum....
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Revenue cycle management undergoes changes

 Patty Enrado July 09, 2007
Outside forces are shaping how healthcare organizations are managing their revenue cycles. Regulation changes and the consumer-directed healthcare movement are the main agents of change....
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