Here are six revenue cycle management portfolio expansions involving healthcare vendors and providers in August.
1. Chillicothe, Ohio-based Adena Health System revealed a patient payment system upgrade.
2. Houston-based healthcare development and management company Nobilis Health chose Atlanta-based Streamline Health Solutions, which provides healthcare revenue cycle management solutions and services, for its accounts receivable management, denials management and business analytics software.
3. GeBBS Healthcare Solutions, a revenue cycle management and health information management services provider in Marina del Rey, Calif., has a new professional fee evaluation and management leveling calculator tool.
4. Spectrum Payments, a revenue cycle management solutions provider powered by iStream, is a pipeline partner of the National Rural Health Association.
5. Infinity Diagnostic Labs, a full-service clinical and anatomical pathology laboratory in Teterboro, N.J., chose MTBC, a Somerset, N.J.-based healthcare IT company, for healthcare IT and revenue cycle management services.
6. Tempe, Ariz.-based Sonora Quest Laboratories, a joint venture between Phoenix-based Banner Health and Madison, N.J.-based lab giant Quest Diagnostics, is partnering with patient financial engagement company CarePayment.
7. ESolutions, a healthcare revenue cycle technology and analytics solutions provider in Overland Park, Kan., acquired RemitDATA, a healthcare technology company with offices in Memphis, Tenn.; Plano, Texas; and Lexington, Ky.
8. Xtend Healthcare, a healthcare revenue cycle management company in Hendersonville, Tenn., acquired Los Angeles-based ELIPSe.
9. The American Medical Association and Elsevier, a Netherlands-based global information analytics company, will co-develop online course material for the AMA's Current Procedural Terminology medical reporting codes.
10. Gettysburg (Pa.) Diagnostic Imaging, a hospital-based radiology practice, chose Media, Pa.-based Healthcare Administrative Partners, a provider of revenue cycle management solutions, to provide RCM and practice management services.
11. Exeter, N.H.-based CBS Medical Billing & Consulting, a practice management, medical billing and compliance services provider, is expanding.
12. Chicago-based Allscripts, a provider of health IT solutions, entered a definitive agreement to acquire McKesson Corp.'s Enterprise Information Solutions.
13. Tampa, Fla.-based InSync Healthcare Solutions, a provider of cloud-based healthcare technology software, revenue cycle management services and medical transcription service solutions, partnered with a 23-health system alliance in North Carolina and South Carolina.
14. Central Maine Healthcare will deploy R1 RCM's Revenue Capture Solutions module.