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Hospitals that have physician offices connected to and affiliated with them now have another option for getting certified for a Primary Care Medical Home.
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The Joint Commissions Center for Transforming Healthcare has started working with 20 hospitals in South Carolina to improve their safety by examining systems, processes, and structures in an effort to minimize variability in practices.
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For the last three years, McKay-Dee Hospital a 325-licensed-bed teaching hospital in Ogden, UT has made the cut for Modern Healthcares 100 Top Hospitals.
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More than 1,000 alarms per patient per stay. Thats what one unit at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore estimated nurses heard.
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Reduced collection cost and better patient satisfaction were the two major benefits of collecting copays at the time of service that were identified by patient access leaders at Cooper University Health System in Camden, NJ.
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When hospital VIPs at Lourdes Health System in Camden, NJ, expressed concern over the fact there were so many claims denials for no authorization, Joan Braveman, corporate director of patient access, asked for data. She began studying the "no auth" denials.
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Patient access employees often help patients determine eligibility for Medicaid coverage, which in many cases means lost revenue is prevented. However, patients don't always keep the coverage they obtain, even if they remain eligible.
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Unfortunately, healthcare costs are often the first thing that comes to mind when someone gets sick, says Elizabeth H. Broadway, CHAM, director of patient access and business services at Ochsner Health Systems Baton Rouge (LA) Region.
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Taking on the latest form of social media, the National Association of Healthcare Access Management (NAHAM) has announced the arrival of Twitter and YouTube to its media landscape.
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Patient access employees probably believe that insurance companies have an obligation to fully inform consumers about the coverage they're getting. Unfortunately, this belief doesn't always translate into reality.