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Why hospitals need a conscience
Remember "St. Elsewhere"? It was a pioneering 1980s television series, celebrated for its full-fleshed characters and daring story lines. A specific two-part episode stuck with me: It was composed
Successful practices look past the balance sheet
Deb Beaulieu
The Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) last week released its latest report on the traits that make for a successful practice. For the study, MGMA identified 549
Selling practices to hospitals can hurt profits
Despite the trend, selling your practice to a hospital isn't a surefire way to increase profits. To the contrary, physicians who give up control to hospitals may see their incomes drop, especially if
3 tactics to take control of payer reimbursement
As demonstrated by the more than 4,700 recent physician remarks about their relations with payers, physicians believe that insurers strive to wear them down with repeated denials and paperwork
Self-service technologies boost satisfaction, bottom line
A number of recent surveys have revealed that patients want more online access to physician practices and would take advantage of technologies that made it easier for them to make appointments and
Payment terminals help practices cut bad debt
It's perhaps a sad statement on American healthcare that this is even news, but it's still a somewhat rare phenomenon for physician practices to ask patients for credit cards before providing
CHS sued by collections agency
Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems (CHS) Inc., which operates 122 hospitals with approximately 18,000 licensed beds in 29 states, is being sued by Managed Care Solutions (MCS) Inc. for
Some thoughts on outsourcing collections
The other day, a member of the social networking group on LinkedIn posted an interesting question to a healthcare discussion group: "What do you think is more cost effective: to hire new staff
Some medical practices stop taking credit cards
Right now, many patients are being forced to finance their co-payments and deductibles with credit cards. But in about one-third of practices, they don't have that option. Increasingly, practices are
Sharpening your cost-cutting pencil
Lately, healthcare facilities have made some of the deepest cuts they've ever made--and then cut back again. Mass layoffs have become more common than at any point in recent memory, travel has been
