Supply Chain
How can you make sure that the inventory ordered for provider encounters (DME, hearing aids, CPAP machines, ER trays, etc) are being accounted for on the patient’s bill? If you are not reconciling inventory with patient accounting, you are losing potential revenue.
With U.S. drug shortages reaching record numbers, President Obama issued an executive order on Monday, directing the FDA to take steps to reduce current shortages and prevent future disruptions.
Practice Greenhealth, a nonprofit organization working to help healthcare organizations improve their environmental practices, has released the Standardized Environmental Questions for Medical Products. The questions are designed to help hospitals identify, request and procure environmentally preferable medical products.
Struggling pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca announced plans to lay off 400 employees at its main office in Wilmington, Delaware.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have launched a parallel review pilot program that allows medical devices to be reviewed for approval by the FDA and CMS at the same time.
In light of the record drug shortages currently plaguing U.S. healthcare, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) is calling for a Federal Trade Commission investigation into gray market drug resellers' exorbitant price mark-ups as possible price gouging.
Real-time location system firm AeroScout announced Wednesday that it has acquired Sentient Health, which provides software and services for optimizing inventory management of consumable medical supplies.
Healthcare Finance News Managing Editor René Letourneau spoke recently with Jim Webb, senior vice president of operations at Provista, an Irving, Texas-based group purchasing organization, about how to get the most out of your GPO.
The proportion of Americans who reported going without or delaying needed healthcare declined modestly between 2007 and 2010, according to a national report released in late August by the Center for Studying Health System Change.
Ignoring months of protests, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced in late August the next steps for a major expansion of a competitive bidding program designed to help lower costs for quality durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics and supplies.