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Fuqua Heart Center of Atlanta (GA) at Piedmont Hospital has used telehealth technology to significantly reduce the rate of hospital readmissions for heart failure patients.
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Millions of dollars and several hundred thousand lives could be saved if more hospitals followed a simple best practice the swallow test for stroke victims, assert researchers in a new study in the journal Neurology.1 Aspiration, note medical experts, in the main pneumonia risk is stroke patients.
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As the baby boomers age, creating a huge influx of Medicare recipients, health care providers are going to be challenged to provide coordinated care for the elderly as they move through the fragmented health care system.
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The cost of treating pressure ulcers is estimated at $9 billion per year and the cost for care for home health patients with pressure ulcers is 36% more than the cost of caring for home health patients without pressure ulcers.
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Mistakes involving patient classification and preauthorization of procedures are among a lengthy list of common financial errors made in the same-day surgery arena, says Bob Whipple, RNC, CCM, CCS, MHA, a Boston-based senior management consultant with ACS Healthcare Solutions.
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Hospital-based outpatient departments (HOPDs) providers faces changes in the proposed 2008 outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) that include bundling intraoperative services, among other services, into the payment for the associated ambulatory payment classification (APC).
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No, the sky isn't falling; at least that's the response of most ambulatory surgery center (ASC) leaders who have examined the first major overhaul of Medicare payments to surgery centers since the mid-1980s.
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is permitting Custom Ultrasonics to resume manufacturing the System 83 Plus Washer/Disinfector and all accessories.
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Outpatient surgery programs are so busy that staff members are required to wear many hats. When it comes to the responsibility for cost control, your efforts may not be successful if the staff member perceives this is a secondary responsibility. Even if you decide to make cost control a priority for a staff member, not all administrative or board members view the position as necessary.
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Paying attention to details, knowing your contracts, standardizing supplies and equipment, and being willing to purchase large volumes from one vendor can result in significant savings for outpatient surgery programs.