Healthcare Management & Administration Blog

The Rising Cost of Health Insurance and Coverage Concerns Generate Anxiety

Providers are finding themselves in the crosshairs of consumer ire over insurance costs and coverage fears, as well as costs of one-time and ongoing care.

Nurse Staffing: The Ideal Candidate

Finding the perfect nurse for your team may be impossible, but by looking for some basic qualities, you can find the right person and make the most impact.

Ten Conclusions about Conflict Of Interest (COI) Management in Healthcare: Article

To evaluate how healthcare organizations are managing their efforts to reduce COIs, HCCS—A HealthStream Company surveyed 281 U.S. healthcare compliance leaders about the current state of their compliance programs.

Using a Single Source to Identify All Your Healthcare Regulatory Training Requirements

Making sure your mandatory annual healthcare training meets all regulatory requirements is not as impossible as it seems, even when different requirements are buried in multiple sources and overlapping regulatory agencies.

What High Quality Resuscitation Means for the Care Continuum’s Future

When discussing the future of resuscitation for the healthcare continuum, Haynes spoke optimistically about a continued international focus on improving survivability and outcomes.

Enforcement Compliance Is Targeting Home Health, Hospice, and Nursing Homes

Federal and state governments continue their close scrutiny of the Continuum care/post-acute sector. Here we discuss compliance risk areas and CIA in this part of the healthcare industry.

The Impact of High-Deductible Health Plans: Broader Coverage and Depressed Outcomes

Though the Affordable Care Act enabled tens of thousands who had been uninsured to get coverage, it has not done much to dent the insurance cost for those who don’t qualify for subsidies—and has also led to a vast expansion in the number of high-deductible plans.

How Leadership Styles in Healthcare Impact a Staff

Research has identified a wide range of leadership styles. What is the best one for your organization and how do you develop leaders that will help build a great healthcare organization?

Should I Be an Emergency Room Nurse? Questions to Ask Yourself

Here are some questions to ask yourself if you wonder about becoming an Emergency Room Nurse. Healthcare organizations can select the best nurses for the ED by ensuring that they have both the clinical and non-clinical skills to be successful in this department.

Healthcare Regulatory Training Requirements Never Stop Changing!

Meeting regulatory requirements for mandatory annual education doesn’t have to be a headache, even when requirements keep changing.

When Healthcare is Expensive: the Impact on the Patient Financial Experience

A fairly routine inpatient procedure likely will cost the patient, even with insurance, well into the thousands of dollars. There’s also significant sticker shock for consumers, not just around inpatient stays and surgeries, but for day-to-day medical needs.

Hot Topics for 2019 in Healthcare Compliance: Part 2

Where healthcare compliance professionals spend their time is changing as accrediting bodies and regulators find new areas that merit investigation. This blog post comes from our Part 2 round-up of important topics covered at the HCCA 2018 Enforcement Conference.

The Results of a Successful Resuscitation Training Program for the Care Continuum

Though improving resuscitation success is an important purpose in itself, a high quality training program has additional benefits for the care continuum in terms of learner confidence and regulatory reporting efficiency.

The Commitment to Conflict of Interest (COI) Management Is Mostly Strong across U.S. Healthcare

HCCS recently surveyed 281 healthcare compliance leaders about their organizations’ COI programs. One of the survey’s goals was to establish an industry-wide picture of the commitment to COI management and examine it across multiple program variables.

Performance-Guided Learning Can Improve Employee Retention & Boost Performance

An employee education plan based on performance-guided learning will strengthen engagement and retention by providing staff with a thoughtful, customized and effective way to achieve their professional goals.