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NON-PROFIT HOSPITALS that don’t painstakingly document their charitable activities and other benevolent services are running the risk of getting targeted for a PILOT program, health policy speci...
WITH THE U.S. facing a 2006 healthcare tab of $2.1 trillion and healthcare a staggering 16 percent of the gross domestic product, it’s not hard to see why potential “solutions” are s...
MINNEAPOLIS – UnitedHealth Group, one of the nation’s largest managed care organizations, took a bold step last month to boost its footprint in the western U.S. by acquiring Sierra Health...
COVINGTON, KY – When financial professionals think of emergency departments, they often don’t think of bill collection as a natural extension of operations. Emergency care often is as...
By ricHard A. norling and Stephanie Alexander Regardless of how it’s funded, pay for performance, or value-based purchasing, is coming. Congress has mandate...
WASHINGTON – Employers who want to contain healthcare costs should consider implementing innovative benefit designs, said a recent study released by the Center for Studying Health System Change...
WASHINGTON – At one of the many briefings, Congressional hearings and non-profit forums held last month in Washington D.C. on the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), Sen. Ja...
STAMFORD, CT – While a large majority of providers are using technology to verify patients’ eligibility, many are not aware of initiatives under way to reduce common administrative hassles...
Because of practice management costs and high income taxes, many physicians find themselves struggling financially when retirement approaches. Recent studies have looked at the various strategies...
LEAWOOD, KS - Fourteen of the nation’s 460 accredited family medicine residencies are participating in an initiative to look at new ways to provide practice management training to personal physi...