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For the third time since it first introduced its plans to require women's preventive health services including coverage for contraception under employer-sponsored health plans, the Department of Health and Human Services on Friday announced a modified set of proposed rules aimed at allaying the objections of religious organizations to the mandate.
Hospitals and healthcare organizations should brace for a 3 to 4 percent food price increase projected by both the USDA and the American Farm Bureau Federation.
On Thursday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced it had selected more than 500 healthcare organizations to participate in its Bundled Payment for Care Improvement initiative, a program to test how bundling payments for episodes of care can improve care coordination and lower overall Medicare expenditures.
In the first month of the new year, the healthcare industry added 23,000 jobs -- conforming to the industry's average monthly gains throughout 2012, noted the Bureau of Labor Statistics in a statement accompanying the department's jobs report released Friday morning.
The earlier hospitals begin to plan and strategize for how they will handle the healthcare environment once health insurance exchanges are operational, the better, said Purva Rawal, senior manager of health reform at Avalere Health, during a webinar Thursday.
When Congress passed the early morning fiscal cliff compromise there was largely relief across the country. Unfortunately, when it comes to brinksmanship politics, the fine print can get a bit messy and there is often collateral damage and the healthcare sector took a couple of those hits.
When it comes to improving your organization's patient flow, choosing the right tools is as important as developing the right plan.
With the insurance and healthcare landscape in this country changing on almost a monthly basis, payer software vendor HealthEdge has begun conducting regular surveys of insurers as a means to take the pulse of a market at any given time. The surveys, conducted currently at six-month intervals, provide a snapshot of the industry. Ray Desrochers, executive vice president of sales and marketing at HealthEdge recently talked to Healthcare Finance News Senior Editor Chris Anderson about some of the findings of the most recent survey.
To those outside of healthcare, the term "Transformers" likely evokes images of the action-packed movie adventures where the development of transformation technology is crucial to survival. However, this comparison is not entirely unfamiliar to today's hospital C-suite.
Materials management is no longer simply a product purchasing function - it has gone beyond procurement and into analyzing how products are being used and just as importantly, where the products are at any given time.