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Patient advocacy groups have made available a cancer insurance checklist tool to help cancer patients decide which is the most appropriate health plan for them when shopping for coverage in the new health insurance exchanges.
Medicare officials will delay until 2014 enforcement of controversial new rules that define when hospital patients should receive observation care, rather than being admitted, a distinction that makes beneficiaries ineligible for follow-up nursing home coverage.
The opening of the health insurance exchanges may be anticlimactic after all the waiting and noise from supporters and critics of the Affordable Care Act. Health insurers and exchanges are expected to be ready, at least with minimal processes, to be able to enroll customers Oct. 1.
Most hospitals do a solid job of managing patient receivables and associated bad debt expense, but even well performing organizations are quick to say there is always room for improvement.
Due to its substantial impact on a hospital’s bottom line, Tony Stajduhar, president of the Permanent Physician Recruitment Division at recruitment firm Jackson & Coker, believes physician recruitment should always be a top-five concern for hospital administrators -- something that he says is not always the case.
The healthcare industry is undergoing dramatic change, which means a new role for the hospital chief financial officer. CFOs must now be more strategic, and possess some very specific skills and experiences.
American healthcare needs a trillion dollar disruption, and the Affordable Care Act may end up supporting quite a bit of it -- while also slowing innovation in some areas, according to innovation researchers.
Coming just ahead of the opening of health insurance exchanges, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care topped the list of the National Committee for Quality Assurance annual rankings of 2013 health plans, followed by Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Northwest.
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care topped the list of the National Committee for Quality Assurance annual rankings of health insurance plans in 2013, followed by the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Northwest.
The idea of Medicare bundled payments for post-acute care has a ways to go before it could be used widely, according to a study in CMS' Medicare and Medicaid Research Review.