Billing and Collections news and information

Salar, a Baltimore-based provider of electronic physician documentation and billing tools, has been purchased by a subsidiary of Toronto-based Constellation Software.
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Physicians interviewed for a “60 Minutes” segment on HMA's practices “grossly mischaracterized” what goes on at the for-profit hospital chain's facilities, a top HMA exec said.
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Advanced Data Processing Inc., a Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based company that provides medical billing and coding services to emergency medical services providers, announced it experienced a data breach involving an employee who illegally accessed individual account information, "some of which was...
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Health Management Associates executives defended admissions from the company's emergency rooms as comparable with national averages and local competitors ahead of an expected “60 Minutes” story.
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The 928-bed Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas and its affiliated HealthTexas Provider Network have agreed to pay $907,000 to settle whistle-blower allegations that the hospital and physicians fraudulently billed Medicare and Tricare for radiation oncology services between 2006 and 2010.
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Morton Plant Mease, Clearwater, Fla., has entered into a $10.1 million settlement with the Justice Department to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act.
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The American Hospital Association wants to work with the government to ensure that the sellers of electronic health-record systems are producing systems that comply with federal law and don't lead healthcare providers to submit bills that later get them in trouble.
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Conifer Health Solutions, the billing and collections subsidiary of Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare Corp., has acquired Dell's healthcare billing and collections business line.
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MedSolutions, Franklin, Tenn., a medical cost management services company, named Roger Cheek executive VP of operations.
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A former employee of Northwestern University has filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the university and Northwestern Memorial Hospital, alleging that the hospital improperly double-billed the federal government for patient care.
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