OCR Offers Guidance on Sharing Patient Behavioral Health
OCR has proposed deregulatory rulemaking to clarify when hospitals may share certain patient behavioral health information.
How Providers and Insurers can Collaborate to Manage the Cost of Genetic Testing
The cost of genetic testing and therapy, often a deterrent to a potentially beneficial treatment, can be made more manageable if providers and insurers work together.
Keys to Growing High-Value Service Lines
Growing top-performing service lines can be an effective strategy for healthcare organizations to advance their business objectives.
How to Grow High-Value Service Lines Effectively
Growing top-performing service lines can be an effective strategy for healthcare organizations to advance their business objectives.
Physician Distribution, Mobility, Fair Market Value and Compensation Surveys
An analysis of regional differences in physician compensation coupled with the general tendency against long-distance relocation shows there is no truly national market for established physicians. Rather, local market conditions must be considered in setting fair market value.
The Critical Role of Health Systems in the Nation’s Response to the Opioid Crisis
Although state and federal programs dedicated to the opioid crisis are helpful, communities—specifically hospitals and health systems—must be dedicated to making improvements.
Video: Denials and the Revenue Cycle
David Dyke, former vice president of product management for Change Healthcare, discusses how to reduce denials that disrupt the revenue cycle and how to keep up with changing rules around claims.
Penn Medicine’s Secret to Better Value Management: Deliberate Collaboration
Rick Conlin describes one health system's approach to collaboration and the value benefits derived from that strategy.
Challenges and Opportunities, Part II: Responding to Health Care’s Evolving Landscape
With hospitals on the move to enter new payment arrangements and participate in programs disciplining hospital readmissions, they should consider two new approaches to healthcare.
The Shift to Outpatient TKA—What’s the Big Deal?
Hospitals should prepare for the impending revenue impact of a shift of total knee arthroplasty (TKA) procedures from inpatient to outpatient settings by developing strategies to retain market share for TKA.