Rene Letourneau
The healthcare provider community must make changes to the delivery of care in order to meet the challenges currently facing the industry and the nation. That will be the central message Brent James, MD, chief quality officer and executive director of the Institute for Health Care Delivery Research at Intermountain Healthcare delivers during his speech "Clinical Transformation and Increasing Value," at the Healthcare Financial Management Association's ANI conference in Las Vegas at 2:45 p.m. on Monday, June 25.
Sentara Healthcare decreased weekly eligibility-related denials by 7 percent and reduced incorrect insurance denials by 16 percent, reducing write-offs by roughly $1 million over a five-month period. Andy Weddle, vice president of revenue cycle at Sentara Healthcare, and Ed Caldwell, senior vice president of revenue cycle services at Emdeon, will lead a 7 a.m. early riser session, "Sentara Healthcare: Using Technology and Professional Services to Efficiently Manage Uncompensated Care," on Wednesday, June 27 and discussed the success story with Healthcare Finance News Editor Rene Letourneau.
Healthcare financial executives will gather at the Healthcare Financial Management Association's annual ANI conference in Las Vegas on June 24 to 27 to discuss the biggest issues currently facing the industry.
Harvey Riceberg, inpatient pharmacy supervisor at the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada tells Healthcare Finance News Editor Rene Letourneau how the organization saved $750,000 in drug waste costs by implementing a new technology into their drug administering process.
U.S. healthcare prices increased in May 2012, rising 0.2 percent over April prices, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Nurses and nurse managers employed in physicians offices have begun receiving salary increases even as most other clinical and administrative support staff have seen their pay stagnate or decline, according to a recent survey by communications consulting firm UBM Medica US.
In its Spring 2012 Economic Outlook report, Premier healthcare alliance reported that impending reimbursement reductions and uncertainty around the potential impact of health reform will likely lead to more conservative hospital capital budget expenditures for the year.
Online rating sites have become increasingly popular as consumers surf the web to find reviews of hotels, restaurants, electronics and almost everything else.
Led by the Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS), six healthcare organizations launched a major initiative in mid-April to improve the state’s medical liability system.
The 2012 presidential election will be determined by a handful of voters in a handful of states, Stuart Rothenberg, editor and publisher of The Rothenberg Political Report told an audience of healthcare real estate professionals at the Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) International’s Medical Office Buildings & Healthcare Facilities Conference in Atlanta on May 3.