Operations
Clinicians and program managers from two Beacon Communities and the ONC share lessons learned about patient engagement at the HIMSS Government Health IT Conference earlier this week.
Most health plans have acquired and built disparate member eligibility and enrollment (EE) applications over time. Examples include Medicare, Medicaid, private exchange, public exchange (upcoming), group and individual market applications.
Possible changes are coming to how leases are accounted for on corporate balance sheets. Here's what you need to know.
Like it or not, a new healthcare landscape is taking shape that runs counter to just about every convention the industry has ever known.
Community Health Systems, based in Franklin, Tenn., recently announced that their net operating revenues for the first three months of 2013 increased despite a drop in admissions.
The American Telemedicine Association's finance and operations track during its annual meeting in Austin, Texas, sets out to give conference attendees a better understanding of telemedicine's return on investment and efficiencies.
The tax-exempt status of hospitals has been under attack for decades. But the public's awareness of the way not-for-profit hospitals operate intensified as the result of some high profile court cases in Illinois and Minnesota.
By 2014, the core operating rules will likely have a major effect on reimbursement and revenue cycle processes and, as a result, payments, according to speakers who represented the payer, provider and banking perspectives at a Tuesday session titled "The Business Side of Care" during the 2013 HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition.
Doctor-owned hospitals are earning many of the largest bonuses from the federal health law's new quality programs, even as the law halts their growth.
Administrators at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston firmly believe that one man's trash is another man's treasure. As a result, this month the hospital is starting a pilot program that could potentially take a common hospital trash item and turn it into a bit of profit.