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Level-of-Care Process Management: Getting it Right the First Time
September 12th, 2013by: USACS
New regulations stemming from the Affordable Care Act and the associated push toward determining the appropriate level-of-care for patients have changed the way in which hospitals utilize resources to make this determination. Managing this process involves getting the determination of level of care early in the decision making process and performing frequent evaluations to determine […]
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When Negotiations Break Down in a Near-Broken Healthcare System
July 17th, 2012by: Dr. Angelo Falcone
As FierceHealthCare reported a few days ago, an emergency physicians group which staffs and manages two Emergency Departments outside Philadelphia has failed to come to an agreement on reimbursement rates with the region’s largest health insurer, Blue Cross. That won’t mean that people insured by Blue Cross will stop coming to the ER, of course. But […]
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