The Great Pay Debate: 5 Hospital Executive Compensation Trends for 2014
This past July, what started as a regional issue and ballooned to a national issue ended as a nonissue. Click to continue »
The Cost of Price Transparency
“If you can’t beat them, join them.” Click to continue »
Is Academic Medicine As We Know It DOA?
Academic medical centers. Educators of America’s future physicians. Click to continue »
200 Statistics on Physician Compensation
In response to pressure to contain the cost of care while improving quality, hospitals and health systems have increasingly sought to acquire physician practices. Click to continue »
CFO Roundtable: How Will 3 Major Changes for the Year Ahead Impact Finances?
Hospital and health system CFOs are used to dealing with change. Click to continue »
Stretching the Primary Care Continuum: Retail vs. Urgent Care
Though the strategies behind the creation of retail health and urgent care clinics are the same — to provide more patient-centered care and care in lower cost sites — the two do play different roles. Click to continue »
Pioneer, Shared Savings ACOs Save Medicare $380M
Of the 114 accountable care organizations that joined the Medicare Shared Savings Program in 2012, just 54 saved money in their first 12 months, and only 29 of those generated enough savings to share in themwith Medicare. Click to continue »
9 Rural Providers in Michigan, California and Indiana Form ACO
Provider organizations in nine rural communities in Indiana, Michigan and California have bonded together as the National Rural ACO and joined the Medicare Shared Savings Program as an accountable care organization. Click to continue »
ACOs Take $4M of Startup Capital, Survey Finds
A survey has found the average startup costs of accountable care organizations in the first 12 months of operation hit $2 million, but ACOs will likely need twice as much since any shared savings can take another year to flow. Click to continue »
Challenges and Opportunities of Forming ASC Joint Ventures
It’s no secret that inpatient volumes are dropping at hospitals across the country. Click to continue »
Becker’s Hospital Review 5th Annual Meeting
The Times Are Changing, But the Values Remain the Same
It’s hard to turn on the TV, open a newspaper, read an industry blog or even talk to a colleague without being reminded that the healthcare industry has sailed off the edge of the map as we know it and is now navigating uncharted territory. Click to continue »
Coding Crunch: 7 ICD-10 Lessons From Cedars-Sinai
In 2011, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles did what many providers were hesitant to do: It decided to tackle ICD-10 as an inevitable change and began its work to transition to the new system. Click to continue »
7 Common ICD-10 Errors for Hospital Coders
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society and Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange released a report on its ICD- 10 national pilot program last fall, and the groups found many errors existed in the transition to the new coding system. Click to continue »
74% of Physicians Have Not Started ICD-10 Prep, Survey Finds
Nearly two-thirds of physician practices have not begun preparing for the ICD-10 transition, though most are optimistic about their abilities to meet the Oct. 1, 2014 deadline, according to a survey from Navicure. Click to continue »
Focusing on the Patient, Not the Condition: What Hospitals Need to Know About Avoiding Medicare Readmission Penalties
Patients might leave the hospital with discharge instructions to ensure they stay on the mend, but there’s plenty that could go wrong once they get home. Click to continue »
AHA: Hospital Medicare, Medicaid Payments Cut by $113B Since 2010
The 10-year impact of regulatory actions on hospital payments since 2010 will involve an estimated $113 billion reduction in Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, according to the American Hospital Association. Click to continue »
CMS Extends Transparency Movement to Physician Payment
HHS and CMS will evaluate Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, requests on a case-by-case basis for individual Medicare payments made to physicians. Click to continue »
The Growing Bottom Line: 16 Statistics on Profits by Hospital Bed Count
Community hospitals amassed sizable profits in 2012 despite the variable healthcare environment, and the bottom lines at the largest hospitals were in the tens of millions of dollars. Click to continue »
The Virtual Primary Healthcare Revolution: What Health Systems Need To Know
A growing market segment is demanding unscheduled access to primary healthcare services without consideration of health system or pre-existing clinician relationship. Click to continue »
For CIOs, It’s About More Than Money
Healthcare CIOs earn an average base salary of $208,417, according to a 2013 survey from the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives. Click to continue »
Measuring the Ripple Effect: Calculating the ROI of Health IT
In 2011, Worcester-based UMass Memorial Health Care determined its $7.1 million tele- ICU system, installed in 2006, paid for itself in less than a year. Click to continue »
A ‘Disruptive’ Model: How Implant Partners is Shaking Up the Orthopedic Device Model
About three years ago, executives at Wright Medical Group looked at the orthopedic industry’s sharply-increasing device costs coupled with decreasing procedure reimbursements and saw an opportunity to incite change. Click to continue »
50 Rural Hospital CEOs to Know
Becker’s Hospital Review has named the following leaders to its inaugural list of “50 Rural Hospital CEOs to Know.” Click to continue »
How Disruptive Change is Blurring the Lines Between Providers and Payers
Not long ago I would roll my eyes whenever a futurist or consultant would say healthcare was undergoing the greatest period of change in its history. Click to continue »
The Corner Office: Dr. Mike Schatzlein of Saint Thomas Health on Music and Modern Medicine
Michael Schatzlein, MD, has led Nashville, Tenn.-based Saint Thomas Health as CEO since June 2010. Click to continue »
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