Chelsey Ledue
The Baptist Healthcare System has contracted with McKesson for management of its physician revenue cycle in order to help its affiliated physician office network staff spend more time on patient care and address operational and revenue challenges.
The Deloitte Center for Health Solutions has identified $530 billion in opportunities to reduce costs while improving the U.S. healthcare system over the next 10 years.
The number of cases of hypothermia and other cold-related diseases has risen with the season, and cases can be costly for hospitals because treatment in the emergency department is resource-intensive, according to a recent study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Despite the economic downturn in 2008, physicians have seen an average salary increase of 4.4 percent for specialists and 4 percent for primary care, according to Sullivan, Cotter and Associates, Inc. ' s 16th 2008 Physician Compensation and Productivity Survey Report.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has granted three-year extensions for three successful participants in the Care Management for High Cost Beneficiaries Demonstration.
Establishing a national single-payer-style healthcare reform system would provide a major stimulus for the U.S. economy, according to the National Nurses Organizing Committee/California Nurses Association.
The current economic downturn has affected women's ability to plan and prepare for expensive long-term care costs such as nursing home stays, according to a survey released by America's Health Insuran...
The Medical Group Management Association has launched an industry wide effort calling on health insurers, vendors and health care providers to adopt standardized, machine-readable patient ID cards by...
Long-term care facilities that purchase through CHIPS Purchasing, a recently established group purchasing organization for small- to mid-sized long-term care chains, now have access to the full portfo...
The owner and operator of two Miami medical clinics has pled guilty to defrauding the Medicare program for $5.3 million.According to Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Friedrich of the...