Health Care Services Blog

From security, cost reduction, and improving health outcomes and patient experiences, health care providers are leveraging technology and their SAFER Guides self-attestation as a competitive advantage in a consumer-driven health care market.

Physician assistants have joined the ranks of physicians, nurse practitioners and clinical nurse specialists in having the ability to receive payments directly from Medicare.

Hospitals are increasingly bringing in decision support tools to enable health care professionals to quickly and efficiently order the correct cardio tests.

Managing patient medication is a key component of care post-surgery, and outpatient procedures can increase the risk of a mistake occurring upon discharge.

In the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule final rule, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services finalized requirements for split-shared billing for evaluation and management visits.

In the article “From Many, One,” published in the Group Practice Journal, Bert Orlov and Ayesha Medina discuss the future of provider acquisitions with the upturn in private equity activity.

Dynamic risk management—surveillance of an organization’s risk management challenges—is a proactive approach to managing patient safety incidents and malpractice claims.

There’s been a dramatic uptick in activity (acquisitions) by entrepreneurs and private equity firms in the health care industry. Data points to a long-term trend in provider acquisitions (e.g., hospitals, physician practices, home care, telehealth).

Value-based payment models link provider reimbursements to quality of care, rather than simply to the quantity of services delivered. To be successful, ACOs and providers must understand complex regulation changes. Chief among the regulatory changes …