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News Headlines
- Some States Continue Health Care Reform Efforts Despite Budget Deficits 11/19/09
- Banks and Health Care Debt Collectors Poised to Benefit from Rise in HSA Growth 11/12/09
- ACA International Board Halts Plans for Self Regulation in Collection Industry 11/5/09
- Removing Antitrust Exemption Will Have Little Impact on Health Insurers 10/29/09
- Public Health Care Plan Option Gains Favor with Americans Amid Health Insurer Mishaps 10/23/09
- ARM Professionals Look For Cost Containment in Health Care Reform 10/16/09
- Restrictive Debt Collection Language in Reform Bill Targets Hospitals, Not Debt Collectors 10/9/09
- State Lawmakers Seek Legislative Solutions to Health Care Reform Mandates 9/28/09
- Workers Pick up the Tab for Rising Health Care Premiums in Employer-Sponsored Family Plans 9/17/09
- Follow Michael Lamm on Twitter at AAHAM Regional Meeting 9/15/09
- Obama says he won’t Back Down on Public Plan as Choice for Affordable Health Care Coverage 9/10/09
- Survey Says Health Care Reform Still Popular as ARM Industry Examine Changes 9/3/09
- ARM Companies with Immigrant Collections Expertise May Get Boost from Reform 8/28/09
- ARM Industry Weighs Impact of Health Care Reform on Business 8/21/09
- Employee Share of Prescription Drug Cost to Pressure Bad Debt Expense 8/13/09
- New On-line Payment Service Aims to Speed Small Balance Collections 8/3/09
- Patient’s Death Renews Calls on Capitol Hill to Limit Specialty-Hospital Growth 7/21/09
- Health Care Reform Bills Would Hit ARM Firms as Businesses, Rather than as Collectors 7/17/09
- Unpaid Medical Bills and Health Care Initiatives Increasing Demand for ARM Help 7/9/09
- Recent Acquisition Gives ARM Firm New Healthcare Services Expertise 6/18/09
- Follow Michael Klozotsky on Twitter at the HFMA Conference 6/15/09
- ARM Industry Gets Face Time with Lawmakers on Health Care Reform Proposals 6/12/09
- Medical Collection Agency Acquisitions Help Software Developer Sell Product 5/29/09
- Health Care Reform May Restrict Hospitals’ Collection Outsourcing Activities 5/22/09
- Expanding Nurse Practitioners Primary Care Role Could Lower Medical Bad Debt Balances 5/15/09
- Fast-Tracked Health Care Reform May Have Little Impact on ARM Industry in Short Term 5/1/09
- SCHIP Expansion May Present Lower Cost Collection Opportunities 4/24/09
- VIDEO INTERVIEW: Jim Richards, Capio Partners 4/7/09
- Walgreens Looks to Make a Larger Footprint on Basic Health Care Delivery 4/3/09
- Room For Healthcare Reform in President’s Budget: Analysts 3/27/09
- Best Places to Work in Collections Winner Profile: National Patient Account Services 3/23/09
- State Lawmakers Seek Other Ways to Reduce Health Care Cost; Limiting Interest on Debt and Exec Pay 3/20/09
- Grassley, Bingaman to Continue Crusade for Charity Care Definitions, Mandates 3/12/09
- Growing Retail Clinic Industry Could Impact Self-Pay Collections Volume 3/5/09
- Retail Clinics Poised to Gain from Medicaid and SCHIP Expansion 2/26/09
- Field of Medical Debt Buyers Narrows Further with Capio Partners Acquisition 2/19/09
- Stimulus Provides More Emergency Aid to Health Care Industry than Job Creation 2/6/09
- New Committee Assignment Allows McCain to Play a Role in Health Care Reform 1/30/09
- Medical Debt Sellers Looking for Buyers in Weak Financial Market 1/23/09
- Lawsuit Sheds Light on Medical Data Practices as Trigger for Rising Self-Pay Balances 1/16/09
- SCHIP Bill Could Be Chief Performance Officer’s First Efficiency Test 1/14/09
- AHA Ad Urges Congress to Help Hospitals, Uninsured in Economic Recovery Plan 1/9/09
- Lawsuit May have Implications for Medical Collection Agencies 1/6/09
- Collection Agency Sued for Allegedly Violating Charity Care Law 1/2/09
- Medical Debt Collections from Self Pay Accounts to Increase in 2009 12/23/08
- New Illinois Law Could Benefit Medical Debt Recoveries for State Hospitals 12/19/08
- Hospitals Quietly Seek Financial Assistance from Capitol Hill 12/16/08
- More Caps on Medicare and Medicaid no Solution to Rising Health Care Costs 12/12/08
- Electronic Medical Records May Provide Revenue for Providers and Patients 12/10/08
- Hospitals’ Strategy to Boost Medicaid Enrollments Could Hurt Industry’s Long Term Financial Stability 12/5/08
Analysis Headlines
- Changes in the Healthcare Industry that will Impact ARM Companies
- Medical ARM Firms Feeling Pressure of a Sour Economy
- The Cash Market in Healthcare
- Healthcare Self-Pay Collection - Recover from Those Who Can Pay
- Utilizing Revenue Cycle Platforms Benefit Both Patients and Hospitals
- Creditor Survey Underscores Anxiety about Current Economic Conditions
- Competition in Healthcare - Physician Hospitals as Instigators of Change
- Maximizing Revenues in Troubled Times: Proven Methods of Extracting Water from a Stone
- The Tangled Web of Google Health – Online Medical Records Could Change Healthcare Receivables Strategies
- Accounting for Bad Debt: Charity Care, IRS Form 990, and ARM
- How to Maximize the Effectiveness of your Healthcare Collection Agency
- The State of the Industry: What is Next for ARM?
- Healthcare Without a Net
- State Healthcare Reform and the Collection Industry
- Healthcare Debt: Not Your Typical Portfolio
- What Really Makes Healthcare Collections Unique
- Increasing Cash Collections: Best Practices for Healthcare Receivables Management
- Interview: Leigh Marcus, VP of Professional Claims Bureau, Inc
- Legislating Healthcare Funding and its Effects on ARM
- Interview: Jack Nixon of CMRE Financial Services, Inc
- HIPAA and Medical Collections: Staying Compliant Worth the Hassle
- Interview: Michael DiMarco, CEO of The Outsource Group
- Debt Buyers’ Growing Interest in Alternative Asset Classes
Research Headlines
- Kaulkin Report 7 Excerpt - Healthcare Industry is Unusually Diverse
- Healthcare ARM Report - Healthcare Providers and Receivables Management
- Healthcare ARM Report - Conclusion, Outlook, and Index
- Healthcare ARM Report - Suppliers to the Healthcare Sector of the ARM Industry
- Healthcare ARM Report - Threats to the Healthcare ARM Industry
- Healthcare ARM Report - The Healthcare Industry and its Need for Receivables Management
- Healthcare ARM Report - Healthcare Sector of the ARM Industry
- Global Debt Buying Report - Healthcare Receivables in the U.S.
Press Releases
- Combined Business to Create Next-Generation Revenue Cycle Solutions, Improving Administration and Ca 11/16/09
- Accredited Healthcare Business Associates Now Accepting Membership Applications 11/13/09
- Conifer Expands Revenue Cycle Services Agreement with Colorado Hospital System 11/11/09
- Doctations Partners with Professional Claims Bureau in Providing End-to-End Practice Management and Outsource Revenue Cycle Solutions 11/11/09
- Greenfish Fund Purchases Another Large Medical Debt Portfolio 11/6/09
- As the Health Care Debate Rages On, Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) Continue to Gain in Popularity 11/6/09
- Capio Partners Partners with Aequitas Capital Management to Purchase Bad Debt Receivables 11/2/09
- Collection Associates Announces Acquisition of Money Recovery Nationwide 10/30/09
- Officers and Board Of Directors Elected at MDHBA Annual Conference 10/30/09
- Revenue Cycle Solutions, Inc. selects ZirMed as Financial Services Platform Strategic Partner 10/29/09
- MDHBA Offers Recognition At Annual Conference In California 10/28/09
- Equifax to Acquire IXI Corporation 10/22/09
- EOS CCA Launches Healthcare Funding and Servicing Unit AffordaCare 10/19/09
- Clams Review Corporation and Denied Claims Services Company Change Marketing Strategies 10/12/09
- Executive Change: RSource Hires David Agarth as Healthcare Division President 10/8/09
- Executive Change: Chris Tyler to Conifer Revenue Cycle Solutions as CIO 10/8/09
- Merchants & Medical Credit Corp. Selects The Intelitech Group's Acumen! Business Analytics Suite 9/16/09
- Invoice Factoring: Helping Small Businesses Leverage Health Care Costs 9/14/09
- Business Debt Collections: Falcon Medical Now Falcon WorldWide Debt Collection 9/11/09
- The Outsource Group Expands Its Medicaid Eligibility Services Through Acquisition of Medstandard, Inc. 9/10/09
- Conifer Health Solutions Launches Updated Web Site 7/30/09
- MedPay Contributes to Henry County Health Center Receipt of High Performance in Revenue Cycle Award 7/29/09
- St. Joseph Medical Center Selects McKesson for Revenue Management Services 7/21/09
- Expeditive's White Paper - Revenue Cycle Turnaround: Can you go it alone? 7/21/09
- Capio Partners, LLC announces the acquisitions of over $1.2 billion in Healthcare Receivables for 2Q09 7/16/09
- Executive Change: Cheri Kane Hired as Division President for The Outsource Group 7/16/09
- Joint ZirMed®/MedInformatix Revenue Solution Diagnoses Payment Bottlenecks For Large Colorado Imaging Practice 7/14/09
- Medical Data Systems Announces Operations Expansion and Opening of its Primary Collections Operations Office 7/10/09
- Patients’ Ability to Pay and Federal Healthcare Reform Are Greatest Challenges to Hospitals: MedAssist Survey 6/30/09
- Receivable Recovery Partners Expands in Historic Neighborhood 6/26/09
- McKesson Revenue Management Group Honored for Consistent Excellence in Customer Service 6/26/09
- Conifer to Provide Revenue Cycle Services for Three Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Health System Hospitals 6/16/09
- Aspect Customer Wins 1to1 Customer Champion Honors 6/11/09
- Navicure Debuts On Healthcare Informatics 100 6/10/09
- Trumbull Laboratories Sees 55% Reduction In Accounts Receivable 6/9/09
- Health Systems Select MedAssets' Claims Management Solutions to Drive Financial Improvement 6/5/09
- Healthcare Providers and their Uncollectibles 6/5/09
- Receivables Management Bureau Changes Name to Healthcare Receivables Group 6/5/09
- ZirMed® Named To Healthcare Informatics Magazine’s Top 100 6/3/09
- Cardon Third-Party Eligibility Program Receives HFMA Peer Review Designation 6/2/09
- Capio Partners Announces the Acquisition of $1.2 billion in Healthcare Receivables 5/27/09
- Executive Change: Conifer Revenue Cycle Solutions Names Business Development Leader 5/13/09
- iVolution Medical Systems Acquires Continental Collection Services 5/13/09
- FHS' ClearQuote-Patient Estimations Receives HFMA Peer Review Designation 5/8/09
- ZirMed Partners With Hands On Technology, Offering Revenue Cycle Management Solutions To TheraOffice Users 4/21/09
- Accredited Healthcare Business Associates Joins AHA as Associate Member 4/17/09
- MDHBA Awards First CPAS Certification; 17 Individuals Now Certified 4/17/09
- Ontario Systems Signs Multi-Year Agreement with Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center 4/16/09
- Medical Management Consultants Inc. Loses Collection License 4/13/09
- New Collection Strategy Helps Hospitals Convert Bad Debt Into Revenue 4/8/09
