Stephanie Bouchard
The fiscal year 2013 U.S. Health and Human Services budget strives to make wise investments while being fiscally responsible, HHS officials said yesterday during a live web broadcast announcing its budget proposal.
Author and documentary filmmaker, T.R. Reid, talks to Healthcare Finance News about his new PBS film, "U.S. Health Care: The Good News," and about healthcare issues facing the country. We run the final part of our conversation today.
Author and documentary filmmaker, T.R. Reid, talks to Healthcare Finance News about his new PBS film, "U.S. Health Care: The Good News," and about healthcare issues facing the country. We run part one of our conversation today.
As the pressure on independent practices has increased, many physicians have left their private practices to become employed in hospitals and health system settings. For those fighting to stay independent but who need some support, there are practice management companies.
As healthcare reform pushes the industry toward accountable care organization models and payment reform, the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) is hoping to offer its members a tool that will allow them to bring in revenue and improve the health of their patients.
As reimbursement rates have declined and more employers are offering their employees high-deductible health plans, doctors’ offices are more dependent on often less reliable payment directly from patients. In 2012, strategies for handling billing those patients will be a focus of doctors’ offices experts say.
As the trend of doctors leaving private practice to join hospitals and health systems continues, the pressure is on those doctors who aren’t leaving private practice. Marketing can help dial the pressure back.
When Kris Appel, founder and president of Encore Path, a Baltimore-based medical device company, looked for investors to help her get the company’s debut product, a stroke rehabilitation device called Tailwind, on the market, she turned to angel investors, individuals who invest their own money in entrepreneurial endeavors.
As accounts of violence against healthcare workers continue, a report by the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) released late last year underscores the evolving nature of the problem and possible inroads to curtailing it.
As hospitals face more scrutiny from the federal government, it's a good idea for them to audit or assess their compliance learned a group of finance managers Wednesday during an education session offered by the Maine chapter of the Healthcare Financial Management Association.