Independent practices are steadily disappearing as more physicians move into larger health systems. The share of physicians in private practice fell from 60% in 2012 to 42%, according to the most recent data. For health plans, that shift carries a…
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Up to 43% of telemetry use in non-ICU units may lack a clear clinical indication. Yet many health systems still lack an enterprise view of how monitoring is being used, whether orders and device activity align, how long telemetry continues,…
Medication safety programs focus on the five rights, barcode scanning and double checks. Storage design gets far less attention. An analysis of Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) reporting data found selection errors in 28 percent of relevant events involving…
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Most health systems still plan around instinct. Atlantic Health System spent nearly a decade replacing it with evidence. For close to nine years, Atlantic Health System has put demand forecasting at the center of strategic planning. In this fireside chat,…
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Health plans covered by a federal interoperability rule must begin processing prior authorization requests electronically Jan. 1, but the rule’s reach into ASCs may be limited. It excludes many of the payers ASCs depend on most, and the systems that…
Cleveland-based University Hospitals named Ravi Ramani, MD, and Yasir Abu-Omar, MD, co-presidents of UH Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute. The physicians will lead more than 2,000 heart and vascular professionals across 18 hospitals and 47 ambulatory sites, according to an…
Orthopedics or plastic surgery has been the highest-paid physician specialty in each of the last five Medscape Physician Compensation Reports. Pediatrics has ranked in the bottom two every year. Plastic surgery led in the 2022 and 2023 reports. Orthopedics has…
Independence Blue Cross will judge its new surgery center venture through its own claims data, a spokesperson for the Philadelphia-based insurer told Becker’s. IBX, Penn Medicine and Regent Surgical plan to develop at least 18 ASCs across Pennsylvania, New Jersey…
The Mindful CRNA, a Chicago-based coaching and education platform, will open its CRNA Bootcamp on Oct. 21. The program helps registered nurses preparing for nurse anesthesia school, along with current nurse anesthesia residents, handle the pressure of training. Amanda Kay,…
After a physician group acquisition, compliance teams should check every inherited compensation arrangement for three Stark Law red flags in the first 30 days, according to an Oct. 12 blog post from Ntracts, a healthcare contract management company. Here are…
