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Soliant Health, a specialty healthcare staffing provider and part of Adecco Group, announced its list of America's 20 Most Beautiful Hospitals on July 3.
If you were to measure the influence any group has in politics by how much money is contributed to campaigns, the healthcare sector would deservedly be labeled influential. But lobbying insiders say it's not just the money that gives the healthcare industry authority - it's the effectiveness of the advocates the industry employs - and that effectiveness - maybe to the surprise of some - is dependent as much on trustworthiness as on anything.
A recent Yale study of the care quality received at safety-net hospitals in metropolitan areas of the U.S., which provide care for the majority of uninsured, low-income and other vulnerable populations, found that the quality at these facilities is nearly the same compared to non-safety-net hospitals in the same areas.
When the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced a one-year delay for ICD-10 implementation in February 2012 -- pushing the date back to Oct. 1, 2014 -- shrewd CFOs kept their focus and pushed forward with their implementation plans and schedules.
The business of healthcare is complex and is often not clearly understood by the patient or even by the medical office staff. Here are five steps that medical practices should take to help patients understand medical bills and be better prepared to handle them.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Aug. 7 released an interim final rule for making healthcare claim payments electronically and describing adjustments to claim payments. The department expects this next step in the adoption of operating rules to save up to $9 billion over the next 10 years.
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick signed a bill Monday designed to control the state's healthcare costs. Included in the legislation is an overhaul of the medical liability system, which proponents say will decrease the cost of defensive medicine.
For hospitals looking to transform into accountable care organizations (ACOs), the transition can be overwhelming. So much so, said Brent Dover, president at HIE technology company Medicity, that it's basically like becoming a mini insurance company.
Survey respondents expect the trend of employers increasingly shifting health insurance cost to employees to continue.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius released a new rule she says will cut red tape for doctors, hospitals and health plans. In combination with a previously issued regulation, she estimates the rule will save up to $9 billion over the next 10 years.