Connolly Healthcare, a permanent Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), has signed a five-year license agreement with Milliman Care Guidelines.
Connolly will use the Care Guidelines content and software to review Medicare claims in 15 states — West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, [...]

First Horizon Msaver has received the 2009 Model Bank Award in Healthcare Banking from Celent, a Boston-based financial research and consulting firm.
First Horizon Msaver was named a model healthcare bank for its Employer Funding Portal, which is used by employers to deposit employee payroll deductions and employer contributions into individual health savings accounts (HSAs).
The [...]

will become the first national health service company to go 24/7 – responding to U.S. customer service telephone inquiries 24 hours a day, seven days a week for all its medical, dental and pharmacy health employee benefits plans.
In addition, select CIGNA service representatives will proactively monitor Twitter and Web Logs in order to find people [...]

HMS Holdings Corp. announced that it will present at Jefferies 3rd Annual Healthcare Conference, which will be held June 17-18, 2009 in New York City.
Bill Lucia, President and Chief Executive Officer and Walter Hosp, SVP and Chief Financial Officer of HMS Holdings Corp., will present on Thursday, June 18th at 9:30 am Eastern Time.
HMS Holdings [...]

Statement from Dr. Donald Palmisano, spokesman for the Coalition to Protect Patients’ Rights and the former president of the American Medical Association (2003-2004) in response to President Obama’s speech to the American Medical Association House of Delegates Annual Meeting in Chicago today:
I want to thank President Obama for coming to Chicago today. He came with [...]

BestHealthCareRates states that the healthcare reform proposed by the Federal Government may actually eliminate affordable medical insurance from the private sector entirely. While publicly funded healthcare may seem to create affordable medical insurance for more Americans, it may actually create a bigger problem.
Private medical insurance is not the enemy of affordable healthcare in the [...]

Kindred Healthcare, Inc. announced that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued late on May 29, 2009 proposed regulatory changes regarding Medicare reimbursement for long-term acute care (“LTAC”) hospitals. First, CMS issued an interim final rule in which CMS is revising the relative payment weights that would apply to all discharges occurring between [...]

Teva’s Year of Affordable Healthcare campaign is a nationwide call for increased access to affordable health care for American citizens. The program coincides with the 25th anniversary of the landmark Hatch-Waxman Act, which created the modern generic drug industry and has saved billions of health care dollars.
The Year of Affordable Healthcare kicked off with the [...]

Healthcare Liaison has graduated the nation’s first credentialed private healthcare advocates. The announcement was made today by Healthcare Liaison CEO Joanna Smith, LCSW, MPH.
“Our first graduates Michael Knappman, MPAS, and Marie Shouldice, RN are true pioneers,” says Smith. “They represent the professional standard we are committed to establishing here in the US for the [...]

Rockport Healthcare Group, a national preferred provider organization (PPO) focused exclusively on workers’ compensation, has announced that through a joint collaborative effort, their client, the Houston Independent School District (HISD), has obtained a 1305 Texas Healthcare Network (TX HCN) certificate.
Rockport has certifiable networks that provide coverage for nearly 75% of the entire working population of [...]