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No matter what reimbursement or delivery model healthcare organizations decide on, success in the healthcare reform era requires three core components – the right physician leaders, the right executives and the right technology infrastructure.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced Thursday the availability of $10 million to establish and evaluate comprehensive workplace health promotion programs across the nation to improve the health of American workers and their families.
The changing healthcare landscape and the increased need for hospital-physician alignment will lead to an acceleration of physicians leaving private practice in favor of hospital-based employment according to two recent market reports.
President Obama's administration said Friday that it will stop accepting applications for waivers from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's minimum coverage requirements after September 22, 2011.
Many predictions were made early in 2011 about the issues that would challenge healthcare finance leaders this year. Does your experience bear them out?
When the United States economy was dominated by farming and manufacturing work, the motivational emphasis was on getting paid for more output: The more widgets you produced, the more money you earned, but that employment model is on the downswing, says Tim Kilpatrick, a revenue cycle consultant with Dell Services.
Earlier this month, an office manager at a family practice in North Carolina pled guilty to embezzling more than $1 million from her employer. A 20-year employee, she stole the money over an 11-year period.
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.
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.
From 2009 to 2010, many physicians saw increases, even if small ones, in their compensation, according to Medical Group Management Association's (MGMA) Physician Compensation and Production Survey: 2011 Report Based on 2010 Data.