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CT scans in the emergency room have gone up dramatically in recent years. A new study links the increase in CT scans to fewer hospital admissions.
Citing an anticipated infusion of $17 million from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services aimed at helping rural hospitals, the Service Employees International Union has called on Baystate Health to back off plans to eliminate 354 jobs.
In a drive to become more consumer-friendly, healthcare providers are starting to focus their empathy on an area that has been problematic for years – patient bills that are difficult to understand. Not only do hard-to-read statements frustrate patients, they are depriving healthcare organizations from collecting revenues that are legitimately theirs, financial experts say.
Susan Reese is chief executive nurse at Kronos, a Chelmsford, Mass.-based workforce management solutions and services vendor. She spoke recently with Healthcare Finance News editor Richard Pizzi about the changing relationship between the hospital business office and a hospital’s nursing leadership.
A recent study in Health Affairs examines for the first time the effects that differences in healthcare service volume and price, rather than simply spending and use, have on state and regional Medicaid spending.
Former Justice lawyer and prosecutor Leon Rodriguez is appointed director of the Office of Civil Rights.
Healthcare Finance News Managing Editor René Letourneau spoke recently with George Taylor, III, partner at the law firm Burr & Forman in Birmingham, Ala., about the mergers and acquisitions environment in 2011
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) with several key initial partners launched Million Hearts, an initiative announced Tuesday that aims to prevent 1 million heart attacks and strokes over the next five years.
Two-thirds of low income individuals who receive Medicaid are enrolled in comprehensive managed care programs, including risk-based managed care organizations (MCO) and primary care case management programs.