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Insurance brokers can be a key resource for hospitals, but risk managers often end up working with a broker for all the wrong reasons. Sometimes the broker has been with the organization for years with no one questioning the relationship, for example.
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A female doctor claimed to have suffered years of gender discrimination from a hospitals chief of surgery.
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If you are using an electronic health record (EHR) provided by EHRMagic in Santa Fe Springs, CA, you have a problem.
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Maximizing patient safety is the top priority for hospital C-suite executives and risk managers in the United States, but the lack of teamwork, negative culture, and poor communication will present barriers to patient safety in the future, according to a survey commissioned by American International Group (AIG) in New York City.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently proposed a rule that revises the exception, known as the Stark Exception, to the federal physician self-referral prohibition (the Stark Law) for certain arrangements involving the donation of electronic health record (EHR) items and services to physicians or other allied health providers.
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In addition to providing health coaching and care coordination for members who already have developed diabetes, Independence Blue Cross, with headquarters in Philadelphia, provides coaching for members at high risk for developing the disease.
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Instead of waiting until members develop diabetes to intervene, Molina Healthcare is offering members with pre-diabetes a chance to participate in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Diabetes Prevention Program, a prevention program that encourages moderate weight loss, exercise, and lifestyle changes.
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For the past few years, the ED at St. Mary Medical Center in Langhorne, PA, has seen double-digit increases in patient volume. The surging demand has been difficult, to say the least. And by early 2012, administrators realized it was time for a change in course.
