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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.

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.

Bill Slama and Ken Deakyne of Grant Thornton LLP Business Consulting and Technology and Technology Solutions Services discuss the importance of enterprise asset management. 

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. 

The community benefits provided by not-for-profit hospitals outweigh the federal tax revenue that is not collected from these organizations. 

By bringing post-acute care into patient homes, home health services are reducing readmissions by 31 percent and overall healthcare costs by 24 percent. 

Researchers have developed software that reduces readmissions and hospitalizations by flagging patients for increased risk of medical emergencies based on EHR data.

I am looking for assistance with the cost report treatment for our new intensive cardiac rehabilitation service. In most respects, this service operates like a department of the hospital.

This document provides a comprehensive summary of the CY18 OPPS and ASC final rule, published by CMS.

Healthcare payments spike in the months of March and April, when the majority of American households receive their tax refunds.