The Atlanta-based American CyberSystems acquired Burnsville, Minn.-based CrossUSA, a company which offers healthcare-related services such as claims management, billing and enrollment.
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San Bernardino, Calif.-based Corcoran Consulting has launched Corcoran Compliance Connection to help ophthalmologists and optometrists improve their claims coding accuracy, according to Modern Medicine.
Tampa, Fla.-based Vitera Healthcare Solutions found in a recent survey that 72 percent of healthcare professionals already use mobile devices for work but only 6 percent use their devices to connect to their electronic health records or e-prescribe, according to…
After seeing growth in Medicare margins between 2004 and 2005, hospital outpatient margins declined in 2006, which reflects changes in the reimbursement for Medicare Part B drugs and the end of hold-harmless payments to SCHs, which were reestablished in 2009.
State Treasurer Janet Cowell announced this week that Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina will continue to be the system's claims processor until at least 2016, according to Biz Journals.
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Healthcare providers in New Jersey will streamline electronic healthcare claim processing thanks to a new rule from the federal Department of Health and Human Services, according to NJ Spotlight.
Georgia's Department of Community Health announced that the state's programs to provide health insurance to poor and disabled state workers overspent their budget by $100 million and overpaid $30 million to nursing homes and hospices since 2003, according to The…
More small clinics and physician practices in Texas than ever are leaving Medicaid, and less than one-third will take on new patients, the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal reported.
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