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With President Barack Obama's decisive election victory last week, many healthcare organizations accepted that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is here to stay, even though House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is still pushing to repeal it. What is…
Hospitals weren't immune from the recession that hit in late 2008 and endured throughout 2011. A new infographic from Objective Health illustrates how much declines in admissions for commercially insured patients cost hospitals throughout the recession.
Here are several ways to improve clinical documentation improvement and limit the burden created by ICD-10 implementation, including getting physicians more involved, according to PhysBizTech.
The American Medical Association continues to resist the ICD-10 implementation, arguing healthcare providers should wait until 2017 when ICD-11 is ready, according to EHR Intelligence.
Point-of-service collections are becoming a larger part of hospital payment procedures, as roughly 86 percent of hospital and health system executives said bad debt now accounts for more than 2 percent of their total cost of services, according to a…
In August, MX.com surveyed approximately 1,000 health system executives and found that nearly two-thirds — 62 percent — were either uncertain or held a negative view about health insurance exchanges (often abbreviated as HIXs) and their impact on health systems.
The American Hospital Association has distributed a list of alternative strategies to reduce the federal deficit — policies "that don't simply cut Medicare and Medicaid payments," according to a Kaiser Health News report.
Randy Combs, CFO of Chesterfield, Mo.-based Mercy, has been with the 31-hospital system for more than 25 years, making his mark as a forward-thinking financial planner in the Midwest.
The Arkansas Medicaid program is facing a $138 million shortfall next year, and Gov. Mike Beebe (D) has said expanding Medicaid under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act would help fight that deficit, according to a Seattle Post-Intelligencer/Associated Press…
Connecticut hospitals that rely on Medicaid reimbursement may be falling on harder times, as increased Medicaid costs have contributed to a total budget deficit of $365 million heading into next year, according to a New Haven Register report.