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On March 14, there was a big celebration at Mercy Memorial Hospital in Monroe, MI, attended by officials from the Michigan Hospital Association.
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There are literally dozens of studies that enumerate some of the problems that plague patients as a result of imperfect transitions of care.
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Most people have trouble planning the next week's dinners or their next vacation, let alone something that is two and a half years away.
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Increasing data show that variations in care have a negative impact on outcomes and costs some estimates are that almost a third of healthcare dollars are spent in a wasteful manner or go to overuse of the system.
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The Joint Commission can start accrediting psychiatric hospitals, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced in late February 2011.
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As self-pay patients continue to rise in number, you'll need effective strategies for screening these individuals for charity eligibility.
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The secret to any process improvement in the ED is the relationship that your registration staff have with the clinical staff and management, according to Tina Nadrasik, patient access manager in the ED at Bronson Methodist Hospital in Kalamazoo, MI.
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Offering large salary increases or promotions is probably not an option to improve retention, even for your most irreplaceable staff members. However, it's possible that staff might jump at the chance for a lateral move within the patient access department, according to Sherrie Woodmancy, service director for patient billing and financial services at University of Utah Health Care in Salt Lake City.
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Two major areas of concern for the switch to ICD-10 are medical necessity and preauthorizations, according to Susan Hoyle, CCS, coding manager at Mission Hospitals in Asheville, NC.
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If some particularly dismal copay collection data came to your attention, chances are you'd want to scrutinize it carefully before presenting this to senior leaders.