Community Benefit
As new rules have been recently published regarding the requirements facing nonprofit hospitals due to the IRS Form 990, Schedule H, many hospitals may realize that they are not always taking the best approach to community benefit through presumptive charity and misclassifying a great number of charity-eligible patients.
The American Hospital Association's (AHA) Physician Leadership Forum released a new white paper recently that discusses and examines the core competencies that are necessary in order to deliver coordinated, team-based, value-driven care, as well as recommendations for how healthcare organizations can learn to develop these skills in the upcoming generation of new physicians.
Telemedicine and mHealth have the potential to help the healthcare system meet the Institute of Healthcare Improvement's triple aim to simultaneously increase the quality of care, improve the health of populations and reduce the per capita cost of care.
According to a national study released Wednesday by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC), contrary to popular belief, the majority of emergency department (ED) visits by nonelderly Medicaid patients are actually for signs and symptoms of urgent or more serious medical conditions or emergencies rather than routine care.
Soliant Health, a specialty healthcare staffing provider and part of Adecco Group, announced its list of America's 20 Most Beautiful Hospitals last week. Leaders from the top five hospitals spoke to Healthcare Finance News about their reactions.
CMS fears seniors may not be taking advantage of the information available to them because the process is too complex to navigate.
In 2010, Scott Hawig, chief operating officer at Duke University Health System, and Jim Bohnsack, executive vice president of product development at Transunion Healthcare, decided to analyze the behavior, demographic and financial makeup of one hospital system's patient population against service lines to determine how to improve patient outcomes and reduce costs at the same time.
Over the last seven months, St. Joseph Health System (SJHS), a large healthcare organization located in California and western Texas, has been using a multi-disciplinary approach to engage its physicians and clinicians in understanding the impact of clinical practice patterns and resource variability.
A new report from the Battelle/Biotechnology Industry Organization shows that U.S. jobs in the biosciences industry are booming.
Creating specialized hospital units for elderly people with acute medical illness could reduce national healthcare costs by as much as $6 billion a year, according to a recent study by University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) researchers.