May 10, 2023 Nance Goldstein, ACC, PhD Calming discord in your practice. Scenario Your practice providers and staff snipe at each other all day. Daily interactions are harsh or rude. People criticize and complain about just about everyone. It’s awful to hear the squabbling all day long. So, you close your door… What do you …
GREENVILLE, S.C. — The South Carolina Legislature voted overwhelmingly to change the health care industry in the state. Lawmakers are eliminating the state’s Certificate of Need, which was established in 1971. It is intended to promote cost containment, prevent unnecessary duplication of health care facilities and services, guide the establishment of health facilities and services …
Mariah Taylor If you ask a nurse leader why they moved away from the bedside and into leadership, there is a good possibility they will give a version of this answer: “Because I wanted to make more of an impact.” For the past few years, nurses have been leaving hospitals in droves. Some leave the …
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Kelly Gooch and Alexis Kayser – Updated Monday, April 24th, 2023 Shortages in healthcare have long existed. And while some signs may point to easing labor pressures for hospitals, many professionals in the field are living a different story. A March report from Altarum indicated that healthcare employment had rebounded to pre-pandemic levels. The healthcare industry currently has 1.3 percent more jobs …
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9 MIN READ By Ken Coleman Being a good leader is way easier said than done. Sometimes it seems like everyone and their next-door neighbor wants to be a leader, but not everyone has leadership qualities. Fortunately, leading is a skill that can be learned. And the most common way to gain experience is by making …
Laura Dyrda (Twitter) – Friday, April 7th, 2023 Hospitals evolved into health systems over the last several years with multiple care sites and expanded focus on health and wellness. Millions of dollars were spent in rebranding and strategy to become “health systems.” Now, the term is becoming obsolete. Health systems are so much more than care providers, …
Andrew Cass Here are 14 healthcare billing fraud cases Becker’s has reported since March 1: 1. Lanham, Md.-based Luminis Health Doctors Community Medical Center and Diagnostic Imaging Associates agreed to pay more than $2 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act. 2. A physician and pharmacist were sentenced in a pain cream scheme that cost healthcare benefit …
Here’s what to know BY PATRICK MCCRELESS UPDATED MARCH 08, 2023 7:03 PM 00:10 01:17 This specific industry could exceed $30 billion by 2025 With high costs of healthcare in the U.S., the medical tourism industry is booming. Three of the South Carolina kidnapping victims accompanied the fourth to Mexico so she could get medical …
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Mariah Taylor A study from the AARP Public Policy Institute found family caregivers in the U.S. provide $600 billion worth of unpaid care each year. In Connecticut alone, there are 420,000 caregivers providing unpaid care, NBC Connecticut reported March 14. In 2021, they provided 390 million care hours, which amounts to $7.2 billion worth of care. The unpaid contributions …
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Jakob Emerson – Monday, March 6th, 2023 As the nation prepares to unwind federal policies put in place during the COVID-19 public health emergency, states are gearing up for Medicaid redeterminations this spring. The nation has been under continuous Medicaid/CHIP enrollment since early 2020, which raised total enrollment by 20.2 million through October 2022 — a more …
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