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...Envision Healthcare, a KKR-owned company that employs doctors who staff emergency rooms and anaesthesiology departments in hundreds of US hospitals, sued UnitedHealthcare in 2018 in a dispute over billing...
...private equity firm’s legal team worked with software developers to create an online portal combining several applications to help on day-to-day work, such as non-disclosure agreements, deal management, e-billing...
...Brightflag Most customers of Brightflag’s legal matter management and e-billing platform are first-time legal tech buyers....
...As the campaign intensified, Veritas was building investments in companies that digitise medical billing, acquiring a unit of GE Healthcare that focused on billing and other medical software for about $1.1bn...
...and other medical software for about $1.1bn....
...“For a place with that volume and acuity [medical urgency], it is just not safe not to have multiple attendings supervising the residents and physician assistants.”...
...But it also helps them correct perceptions that insurers are just a “billing interface” into seeing them as an “entry point into the entire healthcare system”....
...The company was a buyout vehicle for small, private healthcare billing and back-office operations, with an opaque ownership structure....
...It has also been used as a tool in medical research....
...The cash deal, announced Monday morning, values the provider of electronic healthcare record and medical billing software at $135 a share....
...I am not able to remove the background image of [the Real Medical-Billing Business] in the presentation.” (emphasis added)....
...The world of electronic medical records and hospital billing is esoteric. As such, it is full of waste and rent-seeking....
...Japan’s producers of medical devices have begun to approach the country’s “sleep debt” as a business opportunity....
...Long periods on duty without sleep, which are still required during medical training in many countries, lead junior doctors to make avoidable errors....
...For example, although many people wear them as part of a weight-loss programme, a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 2016, found that the addition of a wearable technology...
...Last month Nigeria did indeed create a new rate: wealthy Nigerians can now pay foreign school fees and medical expenses at a rate of 366 naira to the dollar....
...If medical billing is your thing, maybe go and have a look at a vehicle called CF Corporation, which listed on Nasdaq last May....
...This is a rather convoluted story that begins back at the end of September, when Constellation Healthcare Technologies, Inc, an American supplier of medical billing systems quoted on the AIM market in London...
...Its billing of Medicare, product recall and a five month delay in the filing of its annual report after auditors found “material weaknesses” over internal controls....
...The plaques have long been given star billing; perhaps the spotlight will now turn on untangling tau....
...Alere has had to deal with separate criminal probes regarding bribery and billing practices....
...Indeed, a 2014 study by US non-profit group Rand, found that only between one- to two-fifths of eligible employees typically participate in corporate wellness schemes....
...“I had to go in front of the billing department and the chief financial officer and pull my shirt up and show them I did not have a gaping scar on my stomach,” he says....
...In January, both the Brazilian real and South African rand touched multiyear lows against the US dollar while the average cost of borrowing across emerging markets reached a five-year high of 6.78 per cent...
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