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With eight design teams set to participate in a wide-ranging revenue cycle initiative at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Medical Center in Little Rock, ...
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patient flow standards of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) ...
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With a recent study highlighting the lack of surge capacity in the nation's emergency departments (EDs) and concerns about how health care facilities would respond in the event of pandemic flu,...
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The voluntary posting by Massachusetts hospitals of their staffing plans - a first-in-the-nation initiative - has sparked "wonderful feedback" on what the effort has meant to patients and hospitals,...
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One of the most effective strategies for enhancing ED throughput at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem,NC, ...
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Baylor Health Care - which began automating the check-in process at its Sammons Breast Imaging Center in Dallas more than a year ago - is now extending the concept throughout the health system.
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Most hospitals interviewed in 2005 in 12 U.S. communities had recently changed their pricing, billing, and collection policies for low-income, uninsured patients ...
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Although Children's Hospital of Alabama in Birmingham ... contracts with a company to do internal customer service surveys, the time lag between patient visits and follow-up phone calls can leave something to be desired ...
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When Hurricane Wilma hit the east coast of Florida on Oct. 24, 2005, staff at Martin Memorial Medical Center in Stuart were able to do "more laughing than crying,"...
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The Department of Health and Human Services published in the Sept. 23 Federal Register a proposal for adoption of standards for certain attachments to electronic health care claims under HIPAA. The proposed standard would require doctors, hospitals, and other covered entities to use certain transactions, messaging standards, and a new code set when they electronically request the additional information and provide the information in response to the request related to health plans processing claims.