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Contributed by Joanne McCool If you cherish your sanity, this is no time to be a hospital administrator. The number of hospitals operating in the red demonstrates the mounting financial obs...
Just a year ago we published our first issue of Healthcare Finance News, distributing the premiere edition at the HFMA’s Annual National Institute in Orlando. Today, this newspaper – w...
WASHINGTON – Congress has introduced a bipartisan proposal to expand and streamline the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Under the Healthy Kids Act of 2007, sp...
WASHINGTON – The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services are continuing to ratchet up the pressure on specialty hospitals, now requiring them to improve their ability to treat patients with eme...
LOS ANGELES – Residents and interns work long hours at UCLA Medical Center, but there’s no time to waste on their shifts. And time is money, as the medical center tries to de...
WASHINGTON – A two-page memorandum issued last month by the Internal Revenue Service is expected to reduce the hesitancy of not-for-profit hospitals that have considered providing healthcare inf...
HHS announces plan to release NPI, related data The Department of Health and Human Services has outlined its plan for what provider information will be attached to the national prov...
As healthcare providers look to increase the efficiency and quality of medical care, one of the worst shortages of nurses in recent times is affecting revenues, coordination of care, patient outcomes...
WASHINGTON – Even with a contingency plan in place to give the healthcare industry time to implement national provider identifiers, the government is keeping the pressure on to move the industry...
BOSTON – Massachusetts’ universal healthcare law celebrated its first anniversary in April. And depending on who you talk to, it’s either in need of refinement or an overhaul....