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Fortune magazine recently released its annual 100 Best Companies to Work For list. Healthcare companies nabbed 17 slots. What is their secret to creating a workplace that makes employees want to stay and makes their companies the ones for which job seekers aim? Healthcare Finance News reached out to those companies to find out.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is filling in more details about how physicians and hospitals may appeal decisions that prevent them from receiving or keeping payment as part of the EHR Incentive Program.
The American Medical Society sent Congress a letter yesterday urging lawmakers to use excess baseline budget projections for military actions in Iraq and Afghanistan to fix Medicare's sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula and avert a 27 percent cut to physician payments set to begin on March 1.
UPMC attempts to reduce supply chain expenses by using an electronic data interchange.
The Department of Health and Human Services' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is offering $14 million in grants to support research to build a scientific evidence base for effective public reporting.
HealthGrades, a provider of consumer healthcare information, today released a list of America's top cities for hospital care.
Despite efforts by some religious organizations to be exempt from its provisions, the Obama Administration announced Friday that employers must offer health benefits that provide coverage for contraceptive services without charging a co-pay, co-insurance or a deductible.
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) has released for public comment a first draft of its national priorities for research and research agenda. The research requires the use of electronic health records, much in the way accountable care organizations use health data to improve care. The outcomes are conveyed to physicians electronically.
Duke LifePoint Healthcare and Virginia-based Twin County Regional Healthcare (TCRH) have entered into a definitive agreement that will pump millions into TCRH and its community.
Workforce management firm Kronos Incorporated announced Friday that it has acquired the assets of OptiLink from The Advisory Board Company in a cash transaction.