Here are 15 companies that extended their revenue cycle management portfolios for healthcare vendors and providers in March.
1. Apria Healthcare Group, a medical equipment provider based in Lake Forest, Calif., is joining forces with CarePayment, a financial engagement company based in Nashville, Tenn., to expand payment options for patients.
2. HEALTHCAREfirst, which offers web-based home health and hospice software, billing and coding services and advanced analytics, partnered with ABILITY Network, an IT company that provides data analytics and revenue cycle and clinical management apps.
3. iHealth Innovations, a provider of revenue cycle management services, acquired San Mateo, Calif.-based AllDocuments, a provider of medical billing and collections.
4. Ontario Systems, an accounts receivable and healthcare revenue cycle management software and services provider, partnered with Pronto Computing to help providers with missing insurance identification.
5. Nashville, Tenn.-based Healthcare Bluebook, an online healthcare price comparison tool, launched Healthcare Bluebook Marketplace — a tool that allows residents of Nashville and Middle Tennessee to price shop for healthcare services.
6. GeBBS Healthcare Solutions, a provider of revenue cycle management and health information management solutions, launched a new version of its coding audit software offering, iCode Assurance
7. GRM, which provides information management solutions, released a chart acquisition solution.
8. ABILITY Network expanded its partnership with HealthCare Synergy.
9. Ontario Systems expanded its partnership with global payment processing provider Payscout.
10. Wilmington, Del.-based AuthNet launched authorization and eligibility verification services for physicians, hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers and other medical facilities.
11. FAIR Health, a healthcare data analytics and consumer education firm, is expanding its claims database.
12. Columbia, S.C.-based Palmetto Health will expand its Cerner Millennium Revenue Cycle platform across four of its acute care facilities.
13. Medical and radiation oncology consulting firm Revenue Cycle plans to merge with Coding Strategies, a healthcare coding and compliance education and consulting firm.
14. FAIR Health unveiled a healthcare pricing resource aimed at providing transparency for costs of common procedures and conditions.
15. OmiSYS, a medical claims billing company, acquired pharmacy technology provider voiceTech.
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