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The New Year brought a surge in turnover among the nation’s CEOs, with 123 leaving their posts in January, according to a recent report from global outplacement and executive coaching firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas (CGC). Healthcare led the pack with 25 departures, up from nine a year ago.
After two decades of dealing with a chronic labor shortage, healthcare has reached a crossroads – while a tight job market has produced plenty of applicants, finding and attracting top talent still remains a challenge, employment analysts say.
Professionals entrusted with claim denial management are like good ER doctors: they know that time is of the essence.
Karen Bowden, senior vice president of Craneware InSight, recently discussed denials management with Healthcare Finance News Editor René Letourneau.
Banner Health, one of the largest nonprofit hospital systems in the country, cut $41.5 million from its supply chain costs in 2011. Doug Bowen, Banner’s vice president of supply chain management, spoke recently with Healthcare Finance News Editor René Letourneau about how they achieved such big results in just one year.
The American Health Information Management Association has issued a strong recommendation for healthcare providers to adopt ICD-10 as quickly as possible. This comes as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) contemplates delaying the deadline for one year, until Oct. 1, 2014.
The labor force is the largest cost center in the healthcare industry, and organizations are always looking for ways to manage it more effectively and efficiently.
Aiming to advance its suite of documentation and coding technologies, 3M has acquired Bethesda, Md.-based CodeRyte, which develops clinical natural language processing and computer-assisted coding tools.
In its first full year of contracting with Teladoc for telehealth services, Rent-A-Center reported savings of more than $700,000 in healthcare expenses and lost productivity.
One of the healthiest states in the nation, North Dakota is also known for providing high-quality healthcare at a low cost, according to the Executive Director of North Dakota Medical Association Courtney Koebele. Healthcare Finance News Associate Editor Kelsey Brimmer spoke to Koebele recently about some of the biggest healthcare issues in North Dakota.