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If you're a fan of basketball, you already know of Mike "Coach K" Krzyzewski. Attendees of Healthcare Financial Management Association's 2011 ANI: Healthcare Finance Conference in Orlando at the end of June will be treated to a keynote address by the famed coach.
University of Cincinnati analysis of hospital supply chains – medicines, materials, devices and office supplies – reveals that the use of RFID technology can help hospitals cut as much as 18 percent in labor costs associated with resupplying.
QuadraMed, which develops software for healthcare information management, and Elsevier, the publisher of scientific, technical and medical information, have announced an alliance that combines QuadraMed's training tools with Elsevier's educational courses to ease ICD-10 transition.
The average medical claims error rate in 2010 climbed to 19.3 percent, a two percent increase from the previous year, according to the American Medical Association's fourth annual National Health Insurer Report Card.
The biggest obstacle healthcare facility administrators and doctors face when forming accountable care organizations (ACOs) is physician alignment, says a new survey by healthcare staffing company AMN Healthcare.
More than 5 million Americans with traditional Medicare took advantage of one or more of the preventive benefits that are now available free thanks to the Affordable Care Act, according to a report released Monday by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
The Chartis Group has announced a partnership with the Minneapolis-based HealthPartners Medical Group and Clinics to provide advisory services, program management and knowledge transfer designed to improve delivery of ambulatory care services.
Medicaid managed care plans run by publicly traded, for-profit insurers have higher administrative costs and lower quality of care, according to a brief released last week by the Commonwealth Fund.
The outcry following a New York Times story in May about the nursing home industry trying to get an exemption from the Affordable Care Act's requirement that employers offer their employees health insurance continued last week when a number of nursing home advocacy groups sent a letter of protest to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
The government has found a new high-tech way to crack down on fraud in the Medicare program – predictive modeling. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) said last week the initiative would start on July 1.