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Earlier this month, an office manager at a family practice in North Carolina pled guilty to embezzling more than $1 million from her employer. A 20-year employee, she stole the money over an 11-year period.
Finding ways to create a payment model that rewards high-quality outcomes, reduces avoidable costs and protects payer and provider margins is the focus of the Monday morning education session, "Bridging the Payer and Provider Gap: Creating a Shared-Savings Payment Model for Increased Quality and Efficiency," at the HFMA's ANI: The Healthcare Finance Conference in Orlando.
The Healthcare Financial Management Association has named 12 healthcare organizations as winners of the 2011 MAP Award for High Performance in Revenue Cycle. Winners will be recognized at the upcoming ANI: The Healthcare Finance Conference.
How can healthcare finance executives drive value for their organizations? That question will be front and center at the upcoming ANI: The Healthcare Finance Conference, sponsored by the Healthcare Financial Management Association.
If you're a fan of basketball, you already know of Mike "Coach K" Krzyzewski. Attendees of Healthcare Financial Management Association's 2011 ANI: Healthcare Finance Conference in Orlando at the end of June will be treated to a keynote address by the famed coach.
University of Cincinnati analysis of hospital supply chains – medicines, materials, devices and office supplies – reveals that the use of RFID technology can help hospitals cut as much as 18 percent in labor costs associated with resupplying.
QuadraMed, which develops software for healthcare information management, and Elsevier, the publisher of scientific, technical and medical information, have announced an alliance that combines QuadraMed's training tools with Elsevier's educational courses to ease ICD-10 transition.
The average medical claims error rate in 2010 climbed to 19.3 percent, a two percent increase from the previous year, according to the American Medical Association's fourth annual National Health Insurer Report Card.
The biggest obstacle healthcare facility administrators and doctors face when forming accountable care organizations (ACOs) is physician alignment, says a new survey by healthcare staffing company AMN Healthcare.
More than 5 million Americans with traditional Medicare took advantage of one or more of the preventive benefits that are now available free thanks to the Affordable Care Act, according to a report released Monday by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).