While focusing on being prepared, safe and innovative during the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare providers mustn’t overlook the critical importance of data integrity.
Strategies healthcare facilities can use to put a smile on patients' faces and keep them coming back.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released its final rule requiring hospitals to disclose payer-specific negotiated rates effective Jan. 1, 2021. Becoming familiar with the rule’s definitions will assist in making necessary changes to be compliant.
While some of the guidelines for the transportation, handling, storage and delivery of temperaturesensitive medications are basic and vague, advances in technology help to ensure these drugs are
safe and effective when they reach their site of administration.
Embracing a preventive healthcare model can help to reduce spending and improve patient outcomes, but it will require a seismic shift in mindset by patients, providers and payers.
How health systems and providers are adapting to new dynamics and demands in primary care.
The glut of soon-to-expire products within the pharmaceutical supply chain is a costly problem impacting multiple stakeholders, but smart technology and innovative inventory management systems offer cost-saving solutions.
Reimbursement for expensive immune globulin (IG) therapies can be challenging and frustrating for providers. Here's a guide to help ensure they are reimbursed for the cost of these medications.
How the Internet of Things (IoT) has dramatically changed healthcare by reducing costs, increasing efficiency, upgrading management, improving treatment outcomes, enhancing data access and more.
Healthcare costs continue to rise and payment models subsequently evolve, payers nevertheless largely decide which expensive high-investment drugs will be reimbursed and under what circumstances.
Delivering quality patient care efficiently and effectively benefits patients and providers alike.
New CMS rules focus on transparency to reduce cost in a patient-driven healthcare system.
