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WILMINGTON, Delaware, June 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The recently tornado torn state has more than its fair share to come in the near future in the form of shortages of doctors coupled with the healthcare reforms. Although the state ranks well as far as the number of insured are concerned, the dearth of medical service providers and physicians is taking its toll. The state ranks 45th according to America's Health Rankings and 22% people live in poverty which does not bode well...

Also Inhibits Patients from Seeking Needed CareHealth insurance is not protecting Arizonans from having problems paying medical bills, and having bill problems is keeping families from getting needed medical care and prescription medicines, a new study has found.According to a study published online June 16, 2011, by the American Journal of Public Health, after taking age, income and health status into account, simply being insured does not lower the odds of accruing debt related to medical...

After twelve weeks of intensive training, VGA Billing Services Operations manager Elizabeth Apicella has passed the American Association of Professional Coders five and a half hour certification exam and earned the rank of a Certified Professional Coder. New York, NY (PRWEB) June 10, 2011 The American Association of Professional Coders, or AAPC, is the business equivalent to the American Medical Association (AMA) and the various specialist organizations; American Academy of Orthopedic...

Firm purchases askmyadvocate.com and mycareadvocates.com Tampa, FL (PRWEB) June 06, 2011 Putnam Health Advocates, a leader in patient advocacy services and a business of Putnam Healthcare Services, LLC announced today that they have completed their acquisition of OLH Holdings, LLC dba AskMyAdvocate.com and MyCareAdvocates.com and launched their new consumer web site, http://www.putnamhealthadvocates.com. As a provider of advocacy services for the last 10 years, this acquisition allows...

NEW ORLEANS, June 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- 2011 RBMA RADIOLOGY SUMMIT -- The ability to forecast cash flow and collections performance is vital to medical practices, but many physicians don't have access to the wealth of valuable data in their practices for improving these processes and increasing revenue. To help physicians pinpoint where and how to improve collections, effective new performance forecasting tools that target and "mine" data are available from Orion HealthCorp, Inc., a...

WILMINGTON, Delaware, June 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The level at which healthcare insurance fraud operates in Florida (http://www.medicalbillersandcoders.com/0-florida-0-medical-billing.html) has shocked the National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association and The Department of Financial Services, a division of Insurance Fraud, that investigates frauds for all types of insurance. The intensity with which the frauds are planned has alarmed the investigators and given them enough reason to...

WILMINGTON, Delaware, June 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Denial rates of California's biggest payers being as high as PacifiCare -- 39.6 percent, Cigna -- 32.7 percent, HealthNet -- 30 percent, Kaiser Permanente -- 28.3 percent, Blue Cross -- 27.9 percent, Aetna -- 6.4 percent, the Denial rates in California are witnessed to be on an all time high, as reported by California Department of Managed Care. From 2002 through June 30, 2009, the six insurers rejected 45.7 million claims -- 22 percent...

PALO ALTO, Calif., May 24, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The launch of the private beta version of Simplee, a free web-based personal health care management service that allows consumers to easily understand and manage their health care expenses, was announced late last week. Created by a cadre of industry veterans with deep online consumer content and commerce expertise including former executives from Shopping.com (eBay) and EMC, Simplee is backed by a $1.5 million seed round investment fund led...

VGA Billing Services has developed a new approach to healthcare administration and billing that gives the Physician in Private Practice an advantage over large hospitals. Our new model of "Boutique Partnership" allows for the specialized, individualized care that people are looking for and the financial success and academic prestige that physicians are looking for. New York, NY (PRWEB) May 23, 2011 We at VGA Billing Services believe the current trend in healthcare that has...

SYOSSET, N.Y., May 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Zen Holding Corp. (Symbol: ZNHL) today announced the signing of a Letter of Intent to purchase 100% of Millennium Healthcare Solutions Inc. and its accompanying subsidiaries and pending patent. Final agreements will be signed upon the completion of due diligence by all parties. About: Millennium Healthcare Solutions Inc. and subsidiaries (www.millenniumhcs.com) Millennium HealthCare Solutions Inc. is positioning itself to become a market...