Move over, doctors. Artificial intelligence has it from here…kind of. University College London Hospital (UCLH) is set to begin a trial of AI in its A&E department, which just experienced its longest average wait times in ...
Last month CMS released proposed rules for the fiscal year 2019 for hospital inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS). There are a number of proposed Medicare cost reporting changes you should know, and all of them would be ...
Real estate values have largely recovered. In some markets, home values have surpassed the previous peak reached in 2006, just before the housing bubble burst. At just over 4 percent, the unemployment rate is at the lowest level ...
Defined by OSHA as “any act or threat of physical violence, harassment, intimidation, or other threatening disruptive behavior that occurs at the work site,” workplace violence affects 2 million Americans every year, everyone ...
Is Silicon Valley going to disrupt healthcare? Perhaps because of the bad news circling large tech companies — Facebook’s data crisis, most prominently — a recent important announcement has been lost in the mix: Apple has made a ...
Medicare has now promulgated a penalty under the ACA through Section 6402(a) for failure to submit identified over payments within 60 days. The 60 day clock begins when credible information of an overpayment exist. Overpayments ...
One hospital trend that appears to be accelerating? Acquisitions. Over the past 12 months, hospitals acquired 5,000 independent physician practices. The number of physicians employed by hospitals rose by 14,000, or 11 percent on ...
One U.S. court noted that “Medicare regulations are among the most completely impenetrable texts within human experience.” That may be true, but it doesn’t mean hospitals and health systems are off the hook if they violate these ...
In today’s healthcare environment, it’s difficult to maintain a profit, even in the absence of mistakes. With chargemaster errors, staying lucrative is nearly impossible. The chargemaster and its pricing lists are the foundation ...
Every year, hospital leaders are asked to find more ways to tighten their budgets. Doing more for less is the norm. One place where cuts can occur, often without reducing staff, is the pharmacy, which at 10-20 percent of the ...
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