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Study By HealthGrades HealthGrades Quality Study Identifies Hospitals in Top 5% in Nation; Cities That Have Highest Concentration of Top Hospitals Patients Treated at HealthGrades Distinguished Hospitals for Clinical Excellence Have 30% Lower Chance of Dying How does the quality…
By Julie Knudson for For The Record If used correctly, computer-assisted coding can help hospitals alleviate inefficiencies. As computer-assisted coding (CAC) is deployed by an increasing number of hospitals, its effect on coders is coming into focus. The evolution of…
By Chris Anderson, Senior Editor, Healthcare Finance News Most of the Medicare fee-for-service demonstration projects launched in the past two decades using disease management and value-based payments have failed to reduce costs, says a report issued yesterday by the Congressional…
By Katherine Hobson originally published on WSJ Health Blog The jobs picture last month improved overall — and the health-care sector, which has been a bright spot throughout the downturn, continued to grow. As the WSJ reports, nonfarm payrolls rose…
Gerald T. Roy, Deputy Inspector General for Investigations at the Office of Inspector General lists the agency’s most wanted fugitives responsible for the theft of over $400 million. Click here to read more information about OIG’s most wanted health care…
A Look Ahead Points to Increased Risks; Regulatory Expectations; Reputational Fallout PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Hospitals and healthcare organizations will need more than a couple of aspirin to ready themselves for 2012. Industry experts representing…
By Cole Petrochko, Associate Staff Writer, MedPage Today Nearly all healthcare organizations responding to a survey — 96% — reported that patient or related information has been lost, stolen, or otherwise compromised within the last two years. The number of…
Written by Chuck Lauer and posted at Becker’s Hospital Review Healthcare presents a number of urgent challenges that executives can no longer afford to put off. I was considering what advice to give CEOs facing this brave new world when…
Rene Letourneau, Managing Editor, Healthcare Finance News SOUTH PORTLAND, ME – A panel of ICD-10 experts spoke Friday at a conference co-hosted by the New England Health Information and Management Systems Society and Maine Healthcare Financial Management Association in South…
Written for FierceHealthFinance We expect healthcare executives to set the tone at their organizations and to inspire their teams into becoming the best providers in the region — or the country. But that’s not always how things shake out. Sometimes…