Patient Engagement
Approximately three-quarters of healthcare and hospital systems ask for payment at the time services are provided.
The health system relied heavily in employee training, improved hiring guidelines and staff incentives to create the kind of culture needed to improve collections.
As consumers shop for insurance during the open enrollment period, many of the directories are outdated or incomplete.
With a backlog of patients, home health services are limited by their ability to attract and recruit quality staff.
Law has brought coverage to tens of thousands of previously uninsured shooting victims, often young African-American men, who missed follow-up care.
Every older adult admitted to a hospital as an inpatient has the right to challenge a discharge if he or she feels unprepared to leave.
A number of other women's health benefits are at risk, including guaranteed coverage of maternity services on the individual insurance market.
Heater-cooler device linked to sometimes deadly bacterial infection; FDA under scrutiny for handling of information tied to safety.
Texas Health Resources captures each step of the patient encounter, from the physician's electronic order to payers' insurance verification.
Only 2.5 percent of psychiatric patients seen at transitional care clinic return to ER within three months.