The pandemic has left the healthcare system with staffing and revenue shortages, as well as supply chain management challenges, that are expected to extend into the foreseeable future.
Now, more than ever, healthcare provider organizations can benefit from leveraging the broad value of accreditation.
Understanding the factors contributing to the current shortage of immune globulin could help to address a crisis that threatens dire consequences for patients.
Understanding terms used in rule sets pertaining to payment for inpatients, which go into effect during the fiscal year effective Oct. 1, as well as outpatient and physician fee services, which go into effect during the calendar year effective Jan. 1.
Retail health centers are increasingly offering convenient care at lower prices, but debate surrounds their entry into the primary care arena.
The proposed 2022 outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS)/ambulatory surgery center (ASC) and physician fee schedule (PFS) rule sets impact all pharmacy practices.
Expansion of sites of care may soon provide more options for patients and caregivers.
In today’s fast-paced healthcare industry, naiveté about payers’ requirements coupled with their supply chain stipulations can lead to reimbursement shock!
The COVID-19 pandemic that has pushed the U.S. healthcare system to its limits and crippled the economy has brought stark attention to the need for new legislation to lower medication prices.
Unfortunately, while the medical profession has made great strides in debuting better practice management systems, cutting-edge diagnostic tools and emerging care models that pay for quality of care rather than volume of care, this is not so for communications strategies.
Spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers are developing new formulas that will last longer and provide greater protection with some new products already on the market.
To ensure patient safety, facilities must require strict cleaning standards are met by properly trained staff.
