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Even if your registrars have expertise and comfort with collecting, there are probably missed opportunities for point-of-service (POS) collections that add up to a lot of missed revenue.
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Almost $8 billion in meaningful incentives has been paid to 82,535 eligible providers and 1,474 hospitals for Stage 1 compliance, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
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A new review of electronic health records (EHRs) by the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority found that mistakes made in EHRs can be farther reaching than errors using traditional paper records, according to the National Association of Healthcare Access Management (NAHAM), referring to a story in MedPage Today.
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The Joint Commission has released its 2013 Survey Activity Guide for Health Care Organizations.
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Your patient access employees probably are accustomed to fielding questions from patients about insurance coverage, but what about helping uninsured patients obtain coverage?
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During the first year of a three-year project to increase point-of-service (POS) collections at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, patient access leaders set and reached a goal of increasing pre-service collections for scheduled inpatients and outpatient surgeries to $2 million, starting from a baseline of $500,000 a year.
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A female doctor claimed to have suffered years of gender discrimination from a hospital's chief of surgery.
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An orthopedic surgeon who reportedly performed as many operations in two days as the typical orthopedic surgeon averages in one month is facing multiple malpractice lawsuits, as are the surgery center and hospitals where he operated.
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Consumer Reports has rated U.S. hospitals on how patients fare during and after surgery.