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Circle your calendar for the upcoming annual Contraceptive Technology Conferences. The San Francisco conference is scheduled for March 12-15, with the Washington, DC, conference set for March 26-29.
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Overall, the emergency plan worked well during a May 2002 fire at Fayetteville (NC) Ambulatory Surgery Center, says Teresa Craven, RN, nurse administrator.
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As reimbursement levels fall, hospital managers are faced with the task of improving profit levels. Because increasing volume can increase profits, managers often look toward increasing the number of cases that can be handled within the workday.
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Brown County General Hospital more than doubled its up-front cash collections over the past year by offering incentives to both registrars and their bosses, says Barb Dailey, patient access director at the Georgetown, OH, facility.
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For HIM departments to successfully navigate the new Medicare and health care territory of the 21st century, its important that directors look at managing time, resources, and intellectual capital a little differently than they have in the past. This can be done by establishing best practices for data management and coding quality.
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Sooner or later, your HIM department probably will begin the process of moving documentation, communications, and transcription to an electronic process, and may decide to use an application service provider (ASP).
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Would it surprise you to know that your emergency department (ED) may be missing out on $250,000 per year of legitimate payments?
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Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston first implemented its new electronic data system two years ago, solely to replace the existing hospital information system for business operations.
