Richard Pizzi
A 25-bed critical access hospital in northern Iowa has implemented a program offering below-market interest rate loans to help patients cover self-pay hospital expenses.
Online advertised vacancies for healthcare practitioners and technical occupations fell for the second month in a row, according to a report released this week.
CarePayment Technologies, Inc., a healthcare financial services company in Portland, Ore., has acquired San Francisco-based Vitality Financial, which provides hospital payment solutions to providers and patients.
Pennsylvania's hospitals are above average when compared to national benchmarks of healthcare quality and often improve at a faster rate than the rest of the country, according to the Pennsylvania Health Care Quality Alliance.
Prices for products used by healthcare providers will rise 3.1 percent on the national market in the next six months, according to a new report by the healthcare supply contracting company Novation.
In what could be a developing trend, 233 mergers and acquisitions were announced in the healthcare industry during the second quarter of 2010, up 7 percent from the 218 deals announced during the prior quarter.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issued a hospital inpatient and long-term care prospective payment system final rule for fiscal year 2011 that would decrease average inpatient payments by 0.4 percent.
Michael Taylor is vice president of revenue cycle management at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. The not-for-profit pediatric academic medical center has 523 registered inpatient beds, and had total operating revenues of $1,487,857 last year. Editor Richard Pizzi spoke recently with Taylor about the organization of revenue cycle operations at Cincinnati Children's, including some steps his team has taken to boost efficient operations.
Some telling hospital industry metrics have improved over the past few months.
Bio-Reference Laboratories, Inc., the third largest full service laboratory in the United States, has reported its best-ever quarter of revenues in corporate history - an increase of 25 percent over the third quarter of fiscal year 2009.