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How do you help healthcare organizations navigate the biggest challenges in healthcare? CommerceHealthcare[R] assists health systems, hospitals and practices in several ways, one being in their recovery from economic disruptions, [...]

How do you help healthcare organizations navigate the biggest challenges in healthcare Healthcare reimbursement was already challenging without the repercussions of COVID 19. Resource constraints both in staffing and technology [...]

You've heard it before: 'Big Data' is transforming health care. But Big Data is still in its early stages, and few hospitals or health systems have the time or resources [...]

The vast majority of hospitals in the United States are all too familiar with denials of payment. Payers may issue denials for any number of reasons, chief among them perceived [...]

Preventable mortality has become a prevailing headache for most hospitals. In 2007, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) began reporting 30-day mortality on its Hospital Compare website for [...]

Clinical research sites across the country continue to struggle with managing their economic reality. Recent data indicates that many hard working clinical research sites are not operating on a financial [...]

Of any industry's financial operations, those of a hospital are some of the most complicated. Reimbursement rules, third-party contracts, and costing supplies and services are all part of the complex [...]

Candidates' plans are unlikely to have any impact on healthcare reform in the foreseeable future, but payment is changing right now. Americans are keenly interested in how politicians propose to [...]

That's not a realistic prescription for kicking unhealthy habits. In fact, breakthrough programs show that people change at their own speed. Tom smokes. His wife has hounded him for 20 [...]

Byline: Vince Galloro Investor concerns about government reimbursements and patient volumes have largely explained the poor performance of hospital stocks this year. Reimbursements remain highly uncertain as the measures established [...]

How many proton beam therapy centers are enough? The United States now has 5 in operation with at least 10 more on the horizon (see Table 1 on page 14). [...]

Employing diabetes specialist nurse prescribers in secondary care reduces costs, prescribing errors and length of stay according to research presented to the ANP conference in London last week. The study, [...]

LMCs are issuing fresh demands for the DoH to publish the full Carr-Hill formula used to calculate GMS practices' global sums so that it can be refined. LMCs have submitted [...]

Golden State Physicians Medical Group, stunned last year by its first losses ever, is attempting to form panels of specialists who are willing to provide care for as little as [...]

Over the past four decades, researchers at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice have documented substantial variation in healthcare resource consumption among Medicare beneficiaries in the United [...]

Medicaid formularies cost more. That's the conclusion of a recent comparison of Medicaid drug lists and the Model List of Essential medicines compiled by the World Health Organization (WHO) and [...]

Getting accurate information about imaging procedures to clinicians at various points of care can enable a healthcare organization to optimize the value of radiology studies, many of which incur significant [...]

An insurer-initiated price transparency program sought to provide 61,000 patients with price and quality information on elective outpatient magnetic resonance imaging providers in select markets in 2010-1?. Instead of stating [...]

Following the federal government's release of data on hospital charges for Medicare patients, much has been written nationally about how health care providers determine prices, the variation in charges for [...]

Couples retiring this year can expect their medical bills throughout retirement to cost 4 percent more than those who retired a year ago, according to an annual projection released last [...]

Through my 30 years in health care as a consultant and economist, I have never witnessed such an exodus of physicians from health care. Every hospital is in doctor buyout [...]

'Dispense-as-written' prescriptions are exacerbating medication nonadherence and costing the U.S. healthcare system up to $7.7 billion annually, according to a study by researchers at Harvard University, Brigham and Women's Hospital, [...]

The issue of health care reform continues to pervade the minds of employers and employees alike. The recent presidential campaign focused on the ill state of health care in the [...]

A wave of change is sweeping over health care. No news there, of course. But one big difference these days is that real estate assets have gained new importance in [...]

O fall the statistics that a dispensing ophthalmology practice generates, the most important is its capture rate. The capture rate reflects the overall effectiveness of a practice, viewed from the [...]

I often ask these questions of healthcare leaders as they debate the issues of pricing, physician integration, capital demand and access, and volume. The usual reaction to my question is [...]

LOS ANGELES -- Cost is the most frequently cited barrier to adoption of electronic health records, according to two surveys presented in posters at the annual meeting of the Society [...]

Bashing hospitals and doctors is popular in these days of rising medical costs. The flip side of the coin is that the health care industry is growing, adding jobs and [...]