Here are 96 questions in 23 categories you should address when considering and reviewing managed care contracts.
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A revolution in healthcare is under way, and it is not in the form of the much heralded reform effort building on Capitol Hill. The consumerization of healthcare is happening now. Patients and their families increasingly approach healthcare decisions as…
In anticipation of a new presidential administration, CMS has recapped its roadmap for reshaping Medicare’s traditional fee-for-service program through market-based and value-purchasing initiatives intended to improve quality and reduce costs.
HHS' Inspector General Daniel Levinson has announced that the agency charged with protecting Medicare and Medicaid and other HHS' program funding from waste, fraud and error recovered $2.35 billion in fiscal 2008 ending Sept. 30, 2008.
Whenever someone asks me what it takes to succeed in the ASC business, I immediately tell them about "the five C's." These are the five core concepts or competencies that must be mastered by physician-owners at all types of ASCs,…
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Lakeview Hospital in Stillwater, Minn., is putting a four-phase, 20-year expansion project on hold because of concerns over the current economy, according to the Minneapolis/St. Paul Star Tribune.
Harlingen, Texas, will be the site of a new $40 million surgery center for veterans in 2010, although some veterans say the surgery center does not replace the need for a veterans hospital, according to reports.
GHN-Online, a leading provider of real-time, revenue-cycle management solutions, has announced the launch of its new Client Advocacy Group, a GHN-Online user forum for ASCs, hospitals and laboratories, according to a company news release.
AllMed Healthcare Management has announced the launching of its PeerScore services, offering hospitals and surgery centers assistance to meet ongoing professional practice evaluation and focused professional practice evaluation as required by The Joint Commission.
Here are the top 10 states with more hospitals than surgery centers, ranked by ratio of hospitals per surgery center, according to SDI’s 2008 Outpatient Surgery Center Market Report. Ratio of number of hospitals per surgery center (ASC) is indicated…