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As the number of home health agencies and fraud cases related to home health agencies continues to skyrocket, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) is exerting more pressure on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to fulfill an obligation that is 15 years old.
A new partnership between Birmingham, Ala.-based Proventix Systems, Alabama Power and 27 hospitals across Alabama is helping to reduce healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), improving patient outcomes and contributing to bringing down healthcare costs.
Two initiatives that could drastically lower the likelihood of heart failure patient readmissions were presented in March at the American College of Cardiology’s (ACC) 61st Annual Scientific Session.
Led by the Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS), six healthcare organizations launched a major initiative in mid-April to improve the state’s medical liability system.
Amistad, a non-profit corporation that provides peer support to individuals with serious life challenges in Portland, Maine, has launched a new program to provide alternative solutions for those who frequently use the emergency department for psychiatric crisis.
A California company known for creating an electronic health record platform for the iPad is adding payment processing and insurance eligibility tools.
Regina Doxtader - CFO, Botsford Health Care, Farmington Hills, Michigan
Although the deadline has been extended, many still question whether it would have been better to have stopped the ICD-10 migration and wait for ICD-11.
Enron, one of the most infamous companies of this millennium because of its corporate ethical scandals, serves a very useful purpose for all businesses. The lessons learned from its mistakes have helped identify new boundaries and standards for what should be expected of all companies. It also brought the value of ethics and integrity into proper focus.
When I attended the Building Owners and Management Association (BOMA) International’s Medical Office Buildings & Healthcare Facilities conference in Atlanta in early May, one word I heard repeatedly was “decentralization.” One healthcare executive after another spoke to the audience of mostly healthcare real estate professionals about their evolving real estate strategies, which focused heavily on offering patient services in locations other than the main hospital campus and at times other than the traditional 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. office hours.