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An organization founded 90 years ago by movie stars such as Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith to support workers in the movie and TV industry is seeing the Klieglight at the end of a dark tunnel.
Phreesia, which specializes in patient check-in technology, showcased its new Payment Scheduler at HIMSS11 on Wednesday. It will enable physician practices to offer payment plans for patients at check-in and check-out, helping ensure that doctors get paid on time and in full.
As the legislature in Texas grapples with its budget, the Children's Hospital Association of Texas (CHAT), which represents seven, nonprofit hospitals, is warning lawmakers that cuts to Medicaid could have disastrous consequences for the children of the state.
High-quality hospitals deliver lower-cost care to trauma patients, according to a study published in the Annals of Surgery. The study found high-quality hospitals have death rates that are 34 percent lower, while spending nearly 22 percent less on trauma patient care than average-quality hospitals.
Maintaining positive operating margins and being transparent about clinical quality outcomes are key factors that help hospitals provide superior clinical quality, CEOs at HealthGrades 50 Best Hospitals for 2011 reported.
A 50-state analysis of the country's skilled nursing sector and its impact on federal and state economies reveals that New York State ranks first in the country in nursing facility-generated economic activity and employment.
New efforts are needed to develop and refine quality-of-care and other performance measures that can assure new payment models will improve medical care without harming patients, according to a new RAND Corporation study.
A potential change in the way the National Labor Relations Board determines how workers in non-acute care facilities unionize has the potential to raise costs and impact the quality of care at such facilities, says the American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has fined Cignet Health of Prince George's County, Md., $4.3 million, in what officials say is the first civil money penalty (CMP) issued for a covered entity's violations of the HIPAA Privacy Rule.
As the Oct. 1, 2013, deadline for ICD-10 implementation bears down, HIMSS11 attendees were assured Tuesday that there's no need to panic.