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As health care reform continues to unfold and performance-based payment models make more headway, emergency providers are pushing the boundaries beyond what the market has traditionally expected from this field of expertise.
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The debate raging over whether it is wrong or right for lawmakers to be looking at ways to limit ED utilization may be missing the more important discussion.
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In today's fragmented healthcare world, case managers are so inundated with tasks that care coordination and transition management often suffer, as this case study illustrates.
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State insurance exchanges and the federal marketplace got off to a rough start at the beginning of October.
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Clostridium difficile (C. diff) should sound a lot scarier for what it is: the second most common nosocomial infection in hospitals, with an average cost of $5,000 for each patient episode and an extra week in the hospital.
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Have you read the final rule for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) 2014 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) yet?
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In the brave new world of healthcare, what goes right and wrong in patient care cant be blamed on someone else along the continuum of care.
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There has been a lot of talk about the importance of shifting away from process measures to determine quality of care and making more use of outcomes measures.
