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Vendor Notebook: Craneware, Inc., signs contract to deploy new toolkit

 Eric Wicklund March 15, 2010
Craneware, Inc., based in Orlando, Fla., has signed multi-year contracts with the North Shore-LIJ Health System on Long Island, N.Y., and the HealthEast Care System in Minnesota to implement the Chargemaster Corporate Toolkit, Online Reference Toolkit and Bill Analyzer solutions.
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Economist says episode payments will bend healthcare cost

 Patty Enrado March 15, 2010
Episode payments – case rates for major acute interventions and chronic conditions – are the best approach for payment reform, according to a University of California economist.
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NHI announces $29.7M of purchase/leaseback transactions with four healthcare facilities

 Industry News Release March 12, 2010
National Health Investors, Inc. announced today a total of $29.7 million in purchase/leaseback transactions.
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Cogent Healthcare and Seton Medical Center to develop unique hospitalist services

 Industry News Release March 12, 2010
Cogent Healthcare announced a new hospital medicine affiliation with 375-bed Seton Medical Center, located in Daly City, Calif., and the Daly City Hospitalist Medical Group, an existing Seton physician group, to develop a distinctive hospitalist care delivery system.
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Nationwide Health Properties acquires five Pacific Medical Buildings

 Industry News Release March 04, 2010
Nationwide Health Properties, Inc. announced the acquisition of five additional medical office buildings, all located on the campuses of A-rated healthcare systems, from Pacific Medical Buildings LLC and certain of its affiliates.
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California Physical Therapy Association criticizes Anthem Blue Cross payment cuts

 Industry News Release February 28, 2010
Patients enrolled in Anthem Blue Cross of California may be in for a rude and costly awakening the next time they visit a physical therapist, according to the California Physical Therapy Association.
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Safety net providers gain dental funds

 Chelsey Ledue February 26, 2010
L.A. Care Health Plans’ Oral Health Initiative has awarded more than $600,000 to 9 community health organizations to improve access to dental services in Los Angeles County.
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Hospitals outsourcing business office duties

 Richard Pizzi February 26, 2010
In these days of increasing bad debt, depleted cash-on-hand and narrow margins, health systems need to streamline their revenue cycle operations, and that often means outsourcing services or automating processes that were previously done by hand.
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Seven hospitals and health systems deploy API Healthcare’s human capital management solutions

 Industry News Release February 26, 2010
API Healthcare, the leading provider of human capital management solutions to the healthcare industry, today announced that seven healthcare providers have implemented its solutions to better manage labor costs, increase staff productivity and streamline workflow throughout their organizations.
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UCLA pilot project to boost access to care for low-income patients

Molly Merrill February 26, 2010
A pilot project launched by UCLA Health System will provide low-income patients at Venice Family Clinic in California with better access to hospitalization or specialized medical care.
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Market power of California providers foreshadows national health reform challenges

 Richard Pizzi February 25, 2010
The growing market power of hospitals and physicians to negotiate higher payment rates has gone largely unexamined, according to a study by the Center for Studying Health System Change.
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HealthGrades names America's 50 best hospitals for 2010

 Chelsey Ledue February 24, 2010
The Golden, Colo.-based healthcare ratings organization examined objective patient outcomes over three years at all 5,000 of the nation’s non-federal hospitals.
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No Country For Young Nurses

 Olga Khazan February 22, 2010
For years, nursing schools lured students with the promise that they would be snapped up by prestigious hospitals upon graduation, remunerated for their hard work with good pay and enviable job security. And they were right - until now, that is.
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American Shared Hospital Services engages investment bank to assist with project financing

 Industry News Release February 22, 2010
American Shared Hospital Services, a provider of turnkey technology solutions for advanced radiosurgical and radiation therapy services, has engaged Siebert Brandford Shank & Co. LLC, to act as placement agent in connection with the debt financing of single and two treatment room proton beam radiation therapy centers AMS is developing in San Francisco, New York City, Boston, Orlando and Long Beach, California.
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Anthem Blue Cross and too much greed

 Don Ammon February 18, 2010
As a retired healthcare leader, I find the current proposal by Anthem Blue Cross to raise rates in California by 39 percent for some 700,000 subscribers quite unbelievable.
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Anthem Blue Cross takes additional heat over 39 percent premium increase

 Diana Manos February 16, 2010
While health insurance reform is stalled on Capitol Hill, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is taking matters into her own hands.
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With 2009 profits up, Kaiser continues to take "prudent measures"

 Molly Merrill February 15, 2010
Officials at Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente reported that the healthcare system's net income for 2009 was $2.1 billion, representing a significant jump over 2008's net loss of $794 million.
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Vendor Notebook: American Academy of Urgent Care Medicine sponsors A-Claim medical payment solutions

 Eric Wicklund February 15, 2010
Preferred Health Technology, Inc., headquartered in Carrollton, Texas, has announced that the American Academy of Urgent Care Medicine has begun a sponsorship of the company’s A-Claim medical payment solutions that includes discounts for all AAUCM members.
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Health insurance companies shouldn't exist

 Effect Measure February 15, 2010
2009 was a dismal year, economically speaking - unless you were a health insurer.
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John Muir Health Foundation Board announces new chair

 Industry News Release February 12, 2010
John Muir Health Foundation, the charitable fundraising organization for all John Muir Health programs and services, has elected Robert F. Saydah as the new Chairman of the Foundation’s Board of Directors.
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