St. Joseph Hospital in Bangor, Maine, will cut employees' pay by 5 percent for three months in reaction to lower volume of paying patients, according to a report by WABI TV.
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Here are the top five payors by CMS region and volume for anesthesiology, according to GENASCIS's "Did You Know" benchmarking data. Note: Anesthesiology data not available for all CMS regions. Data may not be available for all states.
Establishing FMV for call coverage compensation is becoming increasingly difficult as arrangements are evolving and survey data is unreliable. The following will discuss recent trends in paying for call coverage, market statistics and the valuation considerations surrounding certain payment structures.
Here are four statistics about pain management in ASCs, according to SDI Health. 1. Pain management was among the top five surgical specialties found in singe-specialty ASCs, representing 5 percent of the total single-specialty ASC pool. Pain management followed gastroenterology…
As the recession began to bite into hospitals early last year, CEO Mark Newton of Swedish Covenant Hospital in Chicago made a familiar request. Rather than order layoffs, he asked employees to forgo their annual pay increases. But he added…
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In an effort to reduce rising healthcare costs, many Massachusetts health insurers are offering plans that mostly bar patients from receiving care at many more expensive hospitals, such as Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women's Hospitals, according to a report…
Glendale, Wis.-based Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare has started offering billing clinics where patients can make an appointment to meet one-on-one with a billing specialist to discuss outstanding questions related to patients' medical bills and financial responsibilities, according to a report in…
According to the American Society of Anesthesiologists, AAs are non-physician anesthetists and are trained extensively in the delivery of safe and high quality anesthesia care and advanced patient monitoring techniques under the direction of a licensed anesthesiologist. Here are four…
Dale Hockel is vice president of clinical engineering services and supply chain for TriMedx, a provider of healthcare equipment services serving many different types of providers including hospitals and ASCs.
The Senate has approved a temporary fix for the planned 21.3 percent Medicare physician fee cut that went into effect April 1, according to a report by the Washington Post.