Similar Articles

Browse Main Topics:

Business
Computers & Electronics
Education & Reference
Entertainment & Leisure
Family & Home
Finance & Investment
Health
Internet
Pets & Animals
Science & Technology
Society, Politics & Culture
Sports & Recreation

Similar Articles

Commercial Investment Real Estate Sep/Oct 2009 Andrew Dick	Understanding Federal Healthcare Laws Commercial real estate professionals who work with medical office development must be aware of the federal healthcare fraud and abuse laws.
Commercial Investment Real Estate May/Jun 2014	Medical Office Fever Sales of medical office buildings topped $6.7 billion in 2013, according to Real Capital Analytics, proof that this niche sector remains attractive to investors.
Commercial Investment Real Estate May/Jun 2013 Mauldin & Maddron	Medical Office Momentum The Affordable Care Act takes some risk out of healthcare property investment.
Commercial Investment Real Estate Jul/Aug 2012 Wassik & Carlson	Medical Office Trends Hospital affiliation is a strong indicator of MOB asset value.
Managed Care April 2000 Michael Levin-Epstein	Congressional Anti-Kickback Battle Hinges on HCFA's Regulatory Stance In an election year, the political hot buttons -- the Patients Bill of Rights and a Medicare prescription benefit, and maybe the issue of medical errors -- are sure to get a lot more attention than such mundane things as laws that would address potential kickbacks....
Managed Care July 2001 John Otrompke	Stark Allows Federal Regulators To Review Claims Records Fully HMO executives, as well as the providers and physicians who contract with them, should have by now felt the changes in their daily work lives resulting from the government's increased scrutiny of health plans' operations under the fraud-and-abuse compliance laws...
Managed Care January 2002 Michael Levin-Epstein	HHS Seems To Soften Hard Line on Kickbacks Do two recent advisory opinions from the Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General signal some moderation in federal policy on what constitutes a kickback? Maybe. Or then again, maybe not...
Commercial Investment Real Estate Mar/Apr 2011 Mark Alexander	A Healthy Disposition Healthcare systems are capitalizing on increased demand to diversify assets and free up cash.
Commercial Investment Real Estate Mar/Apr 2007 J. Michael Davis	MOB Outbreak The fast-spreading healthcare industry makes medical office buildings a lucrative investment for physicians.
Nursing Management September 2011 Sally Austin	What does EMTALA mean for you? When a patient enters your hospital, do you know what your obligations are under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act?
Managed Care March 2005	Family practice base salary continues to improve Base salaries of family practice physicians increase.
Commercial Investment Real Estate Nov/Dec 2015 Sara Drummond	Medical Office Miracle Big and small MOB investments are up adding to a record year.
Commercial Investment Real Estate Jul/Aug 2012 Andrew Dick	Healthcare Headaches Various issues delay medical real estate construction.
Managed Care September 2005 Ed Silverman	No Easy Fit For Specialty Hospitals Insurers worry that specialty hospitals will ultimately increase costs at nearby community hospitals
Managed Care May 2007	Self-Referral Persists Despite Stark II Law Loopholes in federal and state laws that curb physician referral to diagnostic imaging providers in which they have a financial stake (self-referral) are allowing physicians to stretch how they are paid and for what.
Pharmaceutical Executive September 1, 2013 Shantanu Agrawal	Making Sense of the Sunshine Act: A New Era for Drug Promotion Now that the Sunshine Act's Open Payments spending disclosure program is live, the federal government's lead officer for compliance explains how the new web-based system will work and how US industry, providers, and patients will be better off by making their relationships fully transparent.
BusinessWeek February 20, 2006 Arlene Weintraub	Should Doctors Own Hospitals? Controversy builds over a fast-growing, profit-driven business in which specialty hospitals are partly owned and run by doctors.
Managed Care October 2003 John L. Phelan	Pay Incentives to Physicians For Filing Electronic Claims Physicians' well-known reluctance to invest in office computer hardware and software is costing health plans money. How to get the docs' attention?
Nursing Management June 2011 LaRocco & Pinchera	The emerging trend of medical tourism Although it's difficult to find accurate data, there's general agreement that the number of Americans seeking medical care abroad is growing.
National Real Estate Investor December 1, 2004 Matt Hudgins	Pain Relief for Hospitals Hospital systems are anxious to get out of the landlord business as increasing liability insurance costs and reduced Medicare and Medicaid payments put the squeeze on capital budgets.
Pharmaceutical Executive August 1, 2005 Lena Chow	Docs of Shanghai They're short on status, pay, and respect, but China's young doctors hold keys to the world's fastest growing pharmaceutical market.
Managed Care July 2006 Michael Levin-Epstein	High-Tech Imaging Full of Kickback Dangers Health plans and their members could save billions of dollars a year if radiology costs could be contained. Some managed care companies begin to take a hard look at what's behind the explosion in costs for radiological services.
Nursing Management April 2009 Sharon H. Pappas	Profits, Payers, and Patients: Responding to Changes Profit is necessary for hospitals to fulfill their missions, invest in expansion and new technologies, and reinvest in existing patient care infrastructures. Profitability is the work of the financial team and the clinical team to produce the hospital's desired financial outcome.
The Motley Fool May 22, 2006 S.J. Caplan	Surgery to Go If ambulatory surgery centers can benefit patients and contain health costs, can they benefit investors, too? A few players in the market show potential: AmSurg... Symbion... United Surgical Partners...
CFO January 1, 2002 Andrew Osterland	Operating Room Rising hospital costs, a plague to most companies, have helped some health-care CFOs nurse profits back to health.
InternetNews April 1, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Online Shopping for Hospitals Hospital Compare gives the nation's hospitals a report card for key best practices.
CIO December 15, 2009 Kim S. Nash	Data Sharing That Benefits Customers At Children's Hospital Boston, sharing more data, securely, promises healthier, more satisfied patients.
Pharmaceutical Executive June 1, 2011	Are You Ready for the New China? The ability to act as a good corporate citizen and assert a useful role in national industrial policy on health is going to be essential to success in the new China.
Managed Care December 2007	Strong Support for Transparency, But Small Effect Expected on Costs Three quarters of health care leaders believe increased transparency -- the public reporting of quality and pricing by name of hospital, physician practice, or health care provider -- is essential to improve the performance of the United States' health care system, according to a survey.
Managed Care October 2005 Bob Carlson	What Docs Hate Most About Plans Some insurers seem to have a knack for irritating their network physicians. The list is long, but five categories of irritants seem to recur most often.
National Real Estate Investor January 1, 2006 Joe Gose	Growth Prescription: Medical Office Real estate investors have discovered healthy returns in the decidedly ill health care industry. The allure of medical office buildings hinges largely on predictable occupancy patterns.
Managed Care March 2001 Mark D. Abruzzo	'Final' Stark Regulations Still a Work in Progress The Stark Law generally prohibits physicians from referring Medicare patients for certain designated health services to entities with which the physician (or immediate family members) has a financial relationship...
Managed Care September 1999 MargaretAnn Cross	It's Too Soon To Write Off Those Suffering PHOs Lessons have been learned from early PHOs, which lacked direction and had misaligned interests between hospitals and physicians.
Managed Care June 2003 John Carroll	Specialty Hospitals' Success Sows Seeds of Lobbying Fight Some in government question the propriety of physicians steering patients into facilities that the doctors partly own.
Pharmaceutical Executive September 1, 2008 Herschman & Khorover	The New Code Effective January 1st, sales reps will have a new standard for dealing with doctors with a revised "Code on Interactions with Healthcare Professionals."
CRM August 1, 2009 Lauren McKay	Healing the Sick Facing regulatory requirements, spiraling costs, and an aging (and ailing) customer base, the healthcare industry looks to CRM to balance a pair of age-old doctrines: First, do no harm - and physician, heal thyself.
CIO September 23, 2010 Neil Versel	Healthcare IT: How Reform Is Giving CIOs A More Strategic Role in Delivering Patient Care Electronic health records aren't enough. Healthcare CIOs need to apply technology to coordinating patient care and measuring quality.
BusinessWeek April 23, 2009 Catherine Arnst	Doctors' Pride: A Hurdle to Digital Medicine A forerunner in New England found that some physicians would sooner cut ties than see their elite status threatened.
Fast Company April 2006	"MD" Doesn't Mean "Mostly Digital" How technologically backward are U.S. doctors? Here are some statistics.
The Motley Fool May 12, 2004 W.D. Crotty	Health Care's Unique Risk Select Medical is just the latest to suffer from regulatory changes.
The Motley Fool July 17, 2006 Querna & Fischman	Good Medical Help Close to Home Your local hospital might be just as good as any glittery big-name center. Finding out if your local hospital is up to snuff requires some homework. Here are the major factors in judging the quality of care, courtesy of U.S. News & World Report's annual "America's Best Hospitals" issue.
Inc. September 2007 Cara Cannella	How I Did It: Todd Johnson, President and CEO, Hospital Partners of America Cost pressures may be straining health care providers, but there is money in the hospital business.
Insurance & Technology November 14, 2007 Karen Ignagni	Technology, Innovation Enable Health Insurers To Address Challenges The health insurance industry will continue to innovate and provide new tools to improve the quality of care and contain costs while working with government leaders to ensure Americans have greater access to affordable coverage.
CRM June 2011 Koa Beck	Can Mobile Help Clarify Confusion Over Reforms? Healthcare reform has thrown everything up for question.
Insurance & Technology August 26, 2004 Babcock & McGee	Filter Out the Frauds Health insurers fight back against fake claims with fraud-detection software.
Managed Care July 2007 Martin Sipkoff	Hospitals Asked To Account For Errors on Their Watch Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and states may stop paying for specific hospital-acquired conditions. Will health plans follow suit?
Managed Care February 2006 Sharon Baker	Hospitalists No Longer Novel Increased emphasis on improving quality and patient safety in hospitals, growing pressures to reduce costs, and new limits on residency work hours have all led to an explosion in the number of physicians who work solely in hospitals.
Managed Care May 2007 David A. Sparrow	Pay for Performance: As Much About Costs as About Quality You don't really have a true pay-for-performance program if it doesn't say so on the bottom line.
Managed Care August 2002 Joyce Ochs	Managed Care's Use of Web Not Just for Marketing Anymore Virtually all MCOs today have Web sites as a matter of course. The challenge is to have a site useful enough to make people come back, while the operating challenge is to transfer selected company functions entirely or partially to the Internet to increase efficiency and reduce expenses.
Managed Care October 2003 Ed Silverman	Tough Negotiations in Store Between Plans and Hospitals Fallout from the Medicare outlier-payment scandal is likely to force hospitals to try to replace that revenue. Health plans, prepare to negotiate!