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While the massive, monolithic hospital isn’t a relic of the past, real estate investors don’t see it as the wave of the future, either. Not when emerging payment models favor outpatient over inpatient care, they say.
The American Medical Association has challenged a Georgia court’s blocking of a prompt payment law and in the process has raised questions about some of the pillars of federal preemption under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) as it relates to third-party administrators and self-funded insurance plans.
With a growing focus on continuity of care across settings, the Hospital Corporation of America North Texas Division (HCA) and First Choice Emergency Room, a freestanding emergency room system, have formed a partnership to increase access in Dallas-Ft. Worth region.
Hospitals in states that don’t expand their Medicaid program as outlined under the Affordable Care Act are facing significant revenue reductions due to regulations that will reduce some Medicare and Medicaid payments in 2014, measures that were written into the law to help pay for the expansion of the insurance program for the poor.
On April 1, Highmark Inc. unveiled a group health plan aimed at larger employers and self-insured businesses that provides incentives for members to use providers that exhibit higher quality outcomes, fewer complications and reduced readmissions.
By now, it is no surprise which states have said they won’t expand Medicaid as outlined under the Affordable Care Act. And while there are still a handful of states on the fence, it’s a given that states like Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Georgia, among others, were not going to budge.
Job growth in the healthcare industry continued its climb as winter turned to spring. The industry added jobs again in March 2013, increasing employment by 23,400 positions.
A report issued this week from the State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, shows that 59.5 percent of people now receive health insurance through their employer, down from 69.7 percent just 10 years ago.
The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange announced Thursday that it had submitted its ICD-10 industry readiness survey to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Its findings continue to show insufficient readiness for the October 2014 transition deadline.
Administrators at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston firmly believe that one man's trash is another man's treasure. As a result, this month the hospital is starting a pilot program that could potentially take a common hospital trash item and turn it into a bit of profit.