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CMS 2018 PFS Final Rule Summary
This document provides a detailed summary of the CY18 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) final rule, published by CMS.
Implementation of ICD-10 Coding Correlates With Increased Charges
An analysis of data from 2015, the year of the transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10, found that the average charge per inpatient discharge increased following implementation of ICD-10.
Book Rescue
One man helps book owners save books they value highly because of the profound impact the tomes have had on their lives. How many hobbies can help families preserve their legacy? Louis Papoff fondly remembers an elderly woman from his
Focus on Eliminating Avoidable Readmissions Historical Perspective
A collaboration between a hospital and a skilled nursing facility (SNF) aimed at improving care of the SNF’s residents and preventing avoidable readmissions from the SNF to the hospital offers an important lesson for other such providers.
Trendsetter: Reimagining Physician Preference Items: Why Value—Not Cost—Is the Name of the Game
This article discusses how Premier worked with a large, mid-Atlantic, urban medical center to develop a defined, value-focused, data-driven methodology that optimizes the high-value implant-selection process.
Grant Thornton: Facilitating EAM
Bill Slama and Ken Deakyne of Grant Thornton LLP Business Consulting and Technology and Technology Solutions Services discuss the importance of enterprise asset management.
HFMA Executive Roundtable: Healthcare Consumerism and Transparency in the Revenue Cycle
As patients are held financially responsible for larger portions of their healthcare bills, they are seeking greater transparency about care costs, causing healthcare organizations to rethink their revenue cycles—especially regarding pricing and cost estimation.
Not-for-Profit Hospitals Demonstrate Value
The community benefits provided by not-for-profit hospitals outweigh the federal tax revenue that is not collected from these organizations.
Why Hospitals Should Partner With Home Health Agencies
By bringing post-acute care into patient homes, home health services are reducing readmissions by 31 percent and overall healthcare costs by 24 percent.
Building Machine-Learning Algorithms that Reduce Hospitalizations and Costs
Researchers have developed software that reduces readmissions and hospitalizations by flagging patients for increased risk of medical emergencies based on EHR data.