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A scoring system for assessing which patients are most ready to
be discharged from the hospital can be an important emergency preparedness tool, suggests the director of health services for Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, based in Mount Laurel.
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You dont always know which experiences might prove beneficial when it comes to building a successful career in access services.
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A new registration report card at Childrens Health Care of Atlanta provides access managers with key information on the performance of individual employees in a convenient, easy to read format.
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Higher patient copays and increasing numbers of people who are working but not insured have made the management of self-pay accounts a more crucial issue than ever for most of the nations hospitals.
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NJ group suggests billing, collections guidelines; ED problems highlighted: Cost, capacity issues cited; Final stretch proves tough in HIPAA privacy effort; Almost half of U.S. adults lack health literacy; State cutbacks affect health coverage for low-income families.
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In a recent EMTALA E-Bulletin, Stephen A. Frew, JD, a longtime specialist in EMTALA compliance issues and a web site publisher, said he had received reports that Southern California urgent care centers are getting conflicting information on whether the laws reference to dedicated emergency department applies to them.
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OhioHealth in Columbus, OH offers these 14 tips for improving account management.
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Nonprofit hospital settles suit for $150 million; CMS: Reimbursement for immigrant care proposed; AHRQ outlines alternate health care sites
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When it came time to reinvent the admissions process at St. Helena Hospital in Deer Park, CA, admitting director Peggy ONeill faced tasks ranging from a complete overhaul of the staffing structure to a redesign of the departments physical space.
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Carolinas HealthCare System in Charlotte, NC, regularly preregisters between 96% and 98% of its scheduled patients while reducing denials and accounts receivable days thanks to an innovative and ambitious pre-services department that serves four acute-care facilities.
