Greg Reid

Maria Conte is in favor of any tool that makes life at the office easier. Conte and her team of 20 manage the collection of nearly 100,000 active self-pay accounts per month across the eight facilities that comprise Adventist's Florida Hospital in and around Orlando, Fla.

The term "robotic telepresence" in home healthcare might give pause to even the most up-to-date technology junkie. Rest easy. It doesn't refer to a Skype meeting with Rosie from "The Jetsons." Though it is something akin to what we're seeing from NASA's Martian rover.

Always a key element of healthcare, appropriate nurse staffing is becoming even more important as the industry payment model shifts from reward for high volume toward one that emphasizes efficiency and quality of care.

When managing the hospital chargemaster, working smarter trumps working harder. And the results? Compare an hour with a shovel to one with a backhoe.

As healthcare evolves, where do finance professionals fit in? Out front, helping to shape changes? Or more toward the back, ensuring the decisions of others all add up?

Recent public comment on changes to the guidelines on the 2010 Affordable Care Act’s physician payments provision, the so-called Sunshine Act, brings to light a number of questions from both sides of the issue of making public the healthcare-related financial dealings of doctors and hospitals who receive Medicare and Medicaid funding.

What exactly does it cost to do business? The question dogs healthcare finance professionals. The answer – or at least the medical device supply-chain piece of it – is within reach, according to a new case study on the use of the Perfect Order metric and GS1 bar code standards.

A new study on the cost of hospital readmissions finds that about 1 in 12 adults discharged from a hospital is readmitted within 30 days, adding $16 billion to the cost of healthcare in the United States, and, according to analysts, it underscores the need for a comprehensive approach to reforms.