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CMS makes change to critical access rule; NPI final rule released by CMS; Study: Providers getting better terms
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Health care organizations are discovering, as many industries have already learned, that thriving even surviving in a competitive marketplace means concentrating their talent and experience on what they do best, and offloading noncore services and administrative functions to vendors who can do them better, faster, and cheaper.
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Aligning with the health care customer service model of the Studer Group whose Road Map to Excellence is guided by five pillars: service, quality, people, finance, and growth was a natural fit for Providence Health System, says Patricia Weygandt, manager of access services at Providence Milwaukie (OR), one of three system hospitals in the Portland area.
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Several key innovations contributed to the success of the Wipe Out Waiting (WOW) initiative in the emergency department (ED) of Paradise Valley Hospital in National City, CA, part of the Adventist Health System.
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On July 5, 2002, Baby A was born at a term gestation of 38 week by emergency cesarean due to prolonged decelerations. The infant had Apgar scores of 0/0/0 at 1/5/10 minutes, respectively, and a poor score of 4, 20 minutes after birth.
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A case management program dedicated to infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) has saved Blue Shield of California an average of four days length of stay off each NICU admission, saving the health plan about $3,500 a day.
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The regional offices of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arkansas each have their own identity but they follow consistent policies and procedures based on URAC standards for the companys case management program.
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On Dec. 17, the American Hospital Association (AHA) announced it would provide guidelines for hospitals on billing and collection practices to ensure that poor patients and patients who lack health insurance are treated in a fair-and-balanced manner.
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Public health officials should carefully evaluate the reasons for low rates of participation of health care workers in Phase 1 of the federal Smallpox Preparedness Plan before expanding the vaccination campaign if they hope to preserve the publics trust in vaccination campaigns as a viable public health measure, a group of ethicists from the University of Pennsylvania warn.
