Pennsylvania providers have reported receiving demand letters on untimed codes for therapy from DCS, the Region A RAC covering the Northeast, wrote Nancy Beckley, president of Bloomingdale Consulting Group, in the RAC Monitor.
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The healthcare reform law is paying $2 billion over 10 years to hospitals in four "frontier" states to account for the costs of doing business in rural areas, according to a report by the Bismarck Tribune.
According to Rob Murphy, founder and CEO of Murphy Healthcare and founder of ASC Turnaround Group, the turnaround process should center on syndication of new physicians to the center. ASC Turnaround Group uses members of its sales team to recruit…
Kevin E. Lofton is president and CEO of Denver-based Catholic Health Initiatives, the third-largest Catholic Healthcare system in the nation, with $9 billion in annual revenue and 73 hospitals. Here Mr. Lofton explores key issues for hospitals such as healthcare…
Healthcare providers and suppliers participating in Premier's Global Location Number Transaction Program are demonstrating how data standardization can improve the quality, safety and cost-effectiveness of care, according to a news release.
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CMS has released a proposed rule on value-based purchasing, which involves paying hospitals for performance on quality measures, according to a release by CMS.
Jeff Peters, president of Surgical Directions in Chicago, says when he helped a financially struggling ambulatory surgery center apply the following four surgeon-friendly changes, volume increased by 17 percent. "Surgeons went from 'Do I really want to go there?' to…
An internal investigation by Detroit Medical Center before its sale to Vanguard Health Systems uncovered potentially improper relationships between the health system and more than 250 physicians, according to a Crain's Detroit Business report.
Though recovery audit contractors have been focusing on hospitals as the big fish, they have been auditing practices, too, and have even been scrutinizing E/M codes, according to Frank Cohen, a process improvement analyst for practices, based in Clearwater, Fla.
Fourteen percent of patient suicides occur in non-psychiatric settings, and more than half of those occur in the emergency department, according to an Internal Medicine News report and a Joint Commission study.