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Medicaid Expansion Has Momentum Ahead Of Tuesday’s Midterm Elections!
Ballot initiatives to expand Medicaid health coverage in three Republican-leaning states have momentum heading into Tuesday’s midterm elections. Voters in Idaho, Nebraska and Utah could follow the lead of voters in Maine who last November voted to expand Medicaid for...
Walmart looks to add health clinics in its parking lots
Walmart stores in several states are transforming extra parking lot space into "town centers," some of which could include health clinics, according to Business Insider. "The Walmart Town Center concept is an exciting approach to how we serve our customers by moving...
Remote Care: The New Normal
As reimbursement rules catch up, providers embrace technologies for remote care and patient monitoring. Centralized care, with a hospital as the “hub,” is the standard in the U.S. today. But this familiar model is changing rapidly, as providers embrace remote care at...
Cloud Computing Can Provide More Secure Data
Like with most things in healthcare, organizations need to keep following up after choosing the right vendor and signing an airtight contract to best protect data. In the last few years, cloud computing has moved from an option for healthcare providers to,...
Senate Dems fail to block Trump’s policy on short-term health insurance
By Susannah Luthi | October 10, 2018 Senate Democrats on Wednesday failed in an attempt to overturn the Trump administration's expansion of so-called short-term, limited-duration plans, although they gained a Republican ally. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) broke ranks...
Choose the right HEDIS Partner 5 Key Things to Look For
Here are some essential components of a HEDIS improvement that will efficiently and effectively move your numbers: 1. Powerful Analytics – Identifying and stratifying members with gaps in health care is the first step in maximizing scores. Models that predict how...
5 Challenges to Clinical Cost Containment in Hospitals
Containing clinical costs in a safe manner in hospitals is crucial in the new value-based era of care. Reducing patient lengths of stay has been one of the main targets for clinical cost containment in hospitals. One-way hospitals can contain costs is by implementing...
The Medical Audit Common Reviews and their Risk
The Medical Audit Common Reviews and their Risk The Healthcare Industry (both Payers and Providers) has always had a measure of audits and their “ripple effect” carries down the line whether it be workload i.e. record retrieval, desk auditing, refund request, data...
Consolidating your Facilities Audit Losses
In my recent article “your audit losses begin in medical records” I discussed the role of the release of information officer in the dramatic impact that they can have upon audit losses. In this series we want to more deeply delve into how to consolidate your audit...
Eliminating Audit Denials
Your Audit Losses – Step One Of all the sites I’ve ever consulted for there is always the same pattern and posture with auditing. Some are better than others but all have divided the audit losses into generally three categories. 1. Business Office Denials 2....
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