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One of the greatest hazards at your hospital may be the pathway from the parking lot to the front door.
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Almost everyone gets the flu shot at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle. It isn't an option. It's a condition of employment.
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Revised guidelines from the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) on how hospitals should measure and report bad debt and charity care put the spotlight squarely on patient access staff.
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Health care organizations have a critical need for qualified clinical coding professionals, according to a recent survey by the American Health Information Management Association and the American Hospital Association Central Office.
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The federal Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and Treasury have issued final rules to guide employers in complying with HIPAA nondiscrimination provisions and implementation of wellness programs.
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A longtime dream of "one call does it all" is becoming reality with the creation of a centralized patient access intake center (PAIC) for the 13 hospitals that make up Texas Health Resources (THR), says Jeff Ferrell, director of the new center.
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The implementation of an express registration line at Presbyterian Hospital of Plano (TX) is helping patient access staff consistently meet the goal of having 90% of preregistered patients on the way to their scheduled service within five minutes of arrival.
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Americans are not signing up for consumer-driven health plans (CDHP) that offer reduced premiums with higher deductibles of $1,000 or more for employee-only coverage and $2,000 or more for family coverage, according to a recent survey by the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) and The Commonwealth Fund.
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With increasingly complex cases and more and more uninsured patients, traditional case management staffing models have become obsolete.
