The bundled payment episode definitions in previous Medicare bundled payment initiatives such as the Medicare Participating Heart Bypass Demonstration and the Medicare Acute Care Episode Demonstration included only services provided during the inpatient stay. As inpatients, these patients are closely…
Leadership & Management
The emergency department is a vital part of every hospital's financial success, as the open door to an increasing number of admissions. Successful EDs closely monitor several key areas that impact a department's revenue and efficiency; nine of the most…
Managing the reputation for any business can, at times, seem like a futile attempt to get toothpaste back in the tube. Everybody has always had something to say — now they have a limitless number of places where they can…
Here are five simple ways hospitals can trim spending.
The healthcare market is rapidly changing and efforts to determine physician alignment, ancillary growth and changing payment structures are enough to keep even the most confident CEO awake at night. Even things that used to be a bit easier, like…
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An op-ed published on Bloomberg says most business CEOs are "curiously passive" about the rising costs of healthcare and are failing to implement the most basic management tools to deal with the problem.
Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton, Mass., has reached a tentative three-year contract agreement with its registered nurses after a 17-month stalemate, according to a MassLive.com report.
The board of directors for Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System in Salinas, Calif., has approved a tentative agreement between the hospital and its employees who are represented by the National Union of Healthcare Workers, according to a NUHW release.
University of Mississippi Medical Center laid off 112 employees earlier this month, a downsizing the hospital attributes to current economic conditions, according to The Daily Mississippian.
Although King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table can take on several meanings, one of the most common is the idea of a group of equal leadership figures sitting down to present new and actionable discourse. This concept is very…