Healthcare

Covenant Health Selects Dolbey for Computer-Assisted Coding and ICD-10 Readiness

Cincinnati, OH, November 19, 2013 – Dolbey today announced that Covenant Health, East Tennessee’s leading provider of healthcare, has selected the Fusion CAC solution for each of their seven hospitals. Increased coder productivity and improved financial performance were driving factors in making this decision while preparing for the dramatic healthcare change to ICD-10. Covenant’s physicians…

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UPMC: City of Pittsburgh Cannot Identify a Single Person Employed by UPMC

By Molly Gamble for Becker’s Hospital Review Pittsburgh-based UPMC has maintained its claim it has zero employees and said the city of Pittsburgh “has not, and cannot, identify a single person who is employed by or on the payroll of UPMC, the parent holding company,” according to a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette report. Instead, in a filing…

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Top Hospitals Opt Out of Obamacare

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.…

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What to do (and what not to do) when your $1B system-wide EHR fails

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…

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Avoiding the ICD-10 claims backlog

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…

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HHS settles with health plan in photocopier breach case

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…

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Check Up: Survey of nurses finds ‘moderate’ verbal abuse

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…

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