Accretive Health news and information

Accretive Health has agreed to pay $14 million to settle a lawsuit filed last year by shareholders of the beleaguered Chicago company.
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The Medical Device Innovation Consortium in Minneapolis named William Murray president and CEO, effective Aug. 12. MDIC is a public-private partnership between the Food and Drug Administration and the medical device industry. Murray, 52, most recently served as CEO of Envoy Medical, which...
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Accretive Health today named a longtime executive, whose career stops include KPMG LLP, Readers Digest and PepsiCo Inc., its new chief financial officer.
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The Healthcare Financial Management Association on Sunday released new guidelines aimed at improving provider communications with patients about paying for care.
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Dr. Thomas Lee, network president for Boston-based Partners HealthCare system and CEO of Partners Community Healthcare, will join Press Ganey on July 1 as chief medical officer, a new position at the company. Lee is a practicing cardiologist and co-chair of the Committee for Performance...
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Near the end of May, Joseph Flanagan will join Chicago-based Accretive Health as its chief operating officer.
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Revenue-cycle management companies face new headaches as they assume more responsibility for the privacy and data security of the protected health information they handle.
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The new CEO at Accretive Health, the beleaguered revenue-cycle management company, faces the challenging task of moving the company beyond its immediate financial problems and the glare of national publicity stemming from its allegedly aggressive billing collection practices.
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Mary Tolan, the embattled CEO and co-founder of Accretive Health, has been replaced by Stephen Schuckenbrock, former president of Dell Services, effective Wednesday, as the company looks to restate financials from 2010 to 2012.
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Accretive Health, the embattled revenue cycle management company, said it will restate its financial statements.
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