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Americans who sign up for insurance on the state exchanges may not have access to the nation’s top hospitals, Watchdog.org reports. By Tori Richards for Watchdog.org The Obama Administration has been claiming that insurance companies will be competing for your dollars under the Affordable Care Act, but apparently they haven’t surveyed the nation’s top hospitals.…
Organizations Join Forces to Improve Revenue Capture Through Improved Clinical Documentation CONCORD, Ohio, Oct. 24, 2013 — Dolbey Systems, a leading provider of Computer-Assisted Coding (CAC), and ChartWise Medical Systems, Inc., the leader in Computer-Assisted Clinical Documentation Improvement (CACDI), have formed a technology alliance enabling ChartWise:CDI and the recently announced second-generation ChartWise 2.0 software to…
Organizations join forces to help hospitals prepare for the challenges of ICD-10 CONCORD, Ohio, Oct. 24, 2013 — Dolbey Systems, a leading provider of Computer-Assisted Coding (CAC), has joined with HRS to deliver expanded ICD-10 consulting and coding services to their fast-growing client base. Dolbey will offer HRS’s expert staff as a value-added service during the CAC…
By Erin McCann for Healthcare IT News ‘There really wasn’t any support from management on what was going on.’ The 24-hospital Sutter Health system in Northern California was the talk of the town late August after a software glitch rendered its $1 billion Epic electronic health record system inaccessible to nurses and clinical staff throughout…
By Tammy Worth for Healthcare Finance News Hospitals must strategize now to keep their revenue cycle from stalling The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has recommended that hospitals start testing for ICD-10 in 2013, but so far, many hospitals have not heeded that recommendation. That mistake could ultimately hit hospitals in the wallet. Business…
From WZZM, ABC Channel 13 in Grand Rapids, MI, With Video GRAND RAPIDS (WZZM) — Several employees at Spectrum Health have been terminated over a picture posted on Facebook. A source tells WZZM 13 News that an off-duty employee was in the emergency room when he saw an attractive female. He took a picture of…
News Release at HHS.gov Under a settlement with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Affinity Health Plan, Inc. will settle potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy and Security Rules for $1,215,780. Affinity Health Plan is a not-for-profit managed care plan serving the New York…
By Marie McCullough for philly.com Anyone who has been in the work world for a while knows that now and then, tempers flare and civility suffers. But what if you were subjected to nastiness – insults, yelling, cursing, condescension, humiliating jokes, the cold shoulder – on a constant basis? Assessing the frequency and impact of…
By Elizabeth S. Roop for For The Record Two case studies shed light on the issues to consider before making a purchasing decision. As the transition to ICD-10 edges closer, hospitals are being bombarded with information on how computer-assisted coding (CAC) can ease the process. Conference exhibits, sales calls, and direct mail campaigns can make…
By Steven Salzberg for Forbes , Photo: redtimmy/Flickr We’ve seen how badly the U.S. patent system is broken when it comes to gene patents. The recent U.S. Supreme Court case overturning Myriad Genetics’ patents on the human breast cancer genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2, was a step in the right direction. But the problem goes much deeper than…