Within the health care industry, lately there’s been more talk about quality. Most of the talk involves things such as clinical efficiency, getting people out of the hospital faster, and lowering the costs of care. Only on that last one do patients seem to agree. I’ve talked to a lot of them over the years, […]
For most people, seeing the term ICD-10 means nothing. For those in health care, though, this is a very big deal. Medical billing and coding personnel will be significantly affected, along with hospitals and physicians offices and pretty much every other medical entity you can think of. For people in the United States, it’s a […]
When President Obama was running for the office of president, one of the things he kept talking about was the need for electronic medical records (EMR). When he was trying to push the health care bill, one of the things he kept talking about was electronic medical records. Obviously he wanted this to occur, and […]
We’re in a tough place these days as it pertains to health care. Depending on which side you’re on, it’s either the fault of the hospitals, doctors, insurance companies, states, or the federal government. I’d throw the legal system into the mix as well as banks, suppliers and pharmaceutical companies. I could add to the […]
Some of you saw my post a couple of weeks ago saying that patient accounting people aren’t necessarily mad that there’s now a health care bill. It seems that health care executives are taking the opposite side on this one. In a story on Healthcare Finance News, it seems that around 3/4ths of all the […]
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