Hospital/physician relations
After Valley Hospital of Ridgewood, N.J., switched to pajamas and gowns that provide extra coverage, costs went up $70,000 per year.
The future of healthcare employment might lie with physician extenders, as cost and physician bandwidth spur hiring.
The field has seen a 219 percent increase in 10 years, with one out every five PAs entering the in-demand primary care field.
The consumer demand for price transparency is growing as patients pay more out-of-pocket expenses as deductibles rise.
Premera hack puts renewed focus on securing sensitive healthcare info.
Linking heath information management staff with doctors helped cut a Mississippi hospital's delinquency rate from 40 to 13 percent.
Mental health clinics, psychologists and psychiatric hospitals were left out of the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record Program, and it's cost them.
The groups are worried about anticipated failures resulting in a significant, multibillion dollar disruption for physicians and serious access-to-care issues for Medicare patients.
Average signing bonuses have ranged from $20,000 to $25,000 over the past five years.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has taken to the Web, producing a series of animated videos that explain the changes in a very easy to understand format.