Healthcare Management & Administration Blog

Revenue Cycle Issues Make Provider Enrollment an Even Bigger Issue in Healthcare

Traditionally, hospitals, healthcare organizations, and medical groups have viewed provider enrollment in health plans as a back-office function, lacking strategic importance. More recently however, a number of changes in the industry have caused this function to be viewed in a much more important light.

Hospital Safety is Improving: The Reduction in Healthcare-Acquired Conditions

Enormous efforts are being made to improve patient safety, and recent surveys show signs that hospital-acquired conditions (HACs) are decreasing nationwide.

Is Your Organization Working with Outdated Succession Management Strategies?

While most healthcare companies are devoting resources to succession planning and leadership development, they are failing to yield benefits from their efforts. More than half of hospitals surveyed say they are unprepared to replace leadership roles.

Home Health is the Bridge between Patients, Hospitals, and Physicians

Home health has evolved to play a pivotal role in the care continuum. Payers have realized that home care is a cheaper alternative to both re-hospitalization and emergent care.

Changing Healthcare Delivery: A Look at Walgreens Healthcare Clinics

As the nation’s healthcare system enters a period of profound change, clinics in retail settings offer patient access, convenience, and cost.

Common Challenges to Purposeful Leader Rounding

Perhaps the most obvious constraint to purposeful leader rounding is time. With the countless tasks that hospital leaders manage behind the scenes to improve care services, it can be challenging to find the time for frontline activities.

Leaders Take Note: Your Attention to Patients Can Improve Outcomes

Within healthcare, rounding is an effective way for staff to monitor patient recovery and assess fundamental components of the hospital stay. In addition, rounding is used for diverse functions, from auditing hospital equipment to gathering feedback from employees.

Triaging Post-Acute Care Retention and Turnover

This article describes how, given industry changes and readmission concerns, the post-acute care industry approach to retention and turnover must change radically.

The Business Case for Leadership Assessment in Healthcare

Given demographic trends, Healthcare organizations need to pay special attention to developing a pipeline of leadership talent for the future

How Physicians are Getting Ready for MIPS/MACRA

The next big change in the healthcare industry is the move to Value-Based Healthcare. Value-Based Healthcare (VBH) is the delivery of evidence-based treatments through which providers are compensated based on improved patient outcomes.

Are You Ready for the Transition to Value-Based Healthcare?

The next big change in the healthcare industry is the move to Value-Based Healthcare. Value-Based Healthcare (VBH) is the delivery of evidence-based treatments through which providers are compensated based on improved patient outcomes.

Interdepartmental Rounding Has an Important Place in Healthcare: Best Practices

Through the use of interdepartmental/ support department rounding, you achieve the highest outcomes for your patients while eliminating unnecessary communication challenges throughout departments.

It’s Time to Automate Provider-Payor Transactions

Some industry experts report that healthcare provider practices can save an average of $7.21 per payment by switching from manual to automated remittance and payment processing.

Healthcare Leader Rounding on Patients: Best Practices

When rounding on patients, the healthcare leader focus the entire process in ways that leave a good impression by taking action and expressing appreciation.

Consumers Need to Be Educated About the Financial Side of Healthcare

What may have been a lone voice highlighting the need for consumer-centered financial information in the first decade of the new century has now been joined by a booming chorus in 2016.