A hospital billing practice that can leave Medicare beneficiaries on the hook for large medical costs is becoming increasingly common, according to a report released in Health Affairs on Monday. Three researchers from Brown University examined how frequently patients are placed on “observation status,...
Hospital-Employed Non-Physician Practitioners and Community Physicians: Billing and Stark Law ConsiderationsCollins, Sven C.Joseph, Amy M.Oppenheim, Charles B.Journal of Health & Life Sciences Law
Hospital systems across the country are looking to streamline their billing and collection processes to become more efficient and better compete in their markets. The challenge many face is how to turn the data that's already flowing through financial systems into… ...
Billing System HMS is used for monitoring and managing the finances of any hospital. An HMS can be a combination of two or more types or all the above functionalities. It can be built based on the needs and requirements of the organization that would utilize it. Who are the Users of an...
Both an increase in physician-hospital integration and the rollout of new innovative payment models, such as Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), have been shown to alter affiliated clinicians’ practice styles.1-4 The notion that clinicians’ practice patterns vary across hospital and practice ...
Understanding the impact of a multispecialty electronic consultation service on family physician referral rates to specialists: a randomized controlled trial using health administrative data. Trials. 2019;20(1):348. doi:10.1186/s13063-019-3393-5 PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 81. Olayiwola JN...
47 For instance, the timeliness of postdischarge follow-up, coordination of care with the primary care physician, and quality of medication reconciliation may be associated with readmission risk.48,49 The supply of hospital beds may independently contribute to higher readmission rates.50 Finally, the...
Hospital-at-home (HaH) care is known as a healthcare delivery approach providing acute care services at home as an alternative to traditional hospital care. This study aimed to explore the dimensions and components of HaH care. A systematic review was co
Another possibility has been demonstrated by other studies20,21 that suggest factors such as patient sex and race/ethnicity or physician training are likely to influence patient mortality more than tissue plasminogen activator treatment. In the overall sample, 7.1% of patients with AIS who did not ...
Exposure High vs low probability of physician handoff. Main Outcomes and Measures The main outcome was patient 30-day mortality rate. Results A total of 1 074 000 patients (mean [SD] age, 75.9 [13.7] years; 57.4% female; 82.1% White) were studied. Multivariable regression models adjusted fo...