Post-acute giants Genesis and Kindred announce partnership to tackle outcomes, care transitions
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Feb 02, 2017
Two of the country’s largest post-acute care providers are joining forces in a unique effort to improve quality and care transitions.
GPO agreement with HealthTrust reached
Jan 31, 2017
Healthcare IT company CareView Communications Inc., has entered a group purchasing agreement with HealthTrust.
Stevenson joins Prime Care Technologies
Jan 31, 2017
Travis Stevenson is the new Chief Information Officer at Prime Care Technologies.
Tips to market your new modality
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Kimmer O’Neill
Jan 27, 2017
You might not have gone to school for marketing, but if you get a new modality for your clinic, you’ll very quickly find yourself wearing a marketer’s hat. This is what happened to our team...
athenahealth invests in digital startup
Jan 25, 2017
athenahealth Inc. has become a strategic investor in The Right Place, a digital health startup geared to help expedite discharge between hospitals and post-acute providers.
Verma likely to delegate Medicare-related responsibilities, predecessors say
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Jan 25, 2017
President Donald Trump’s pick to head the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will likely rely on some extra help when it comes handling Medicare-related regulations, past agency administrators...
Parks joins Ridgewood
Jan 24, 2017
Afrika Parks, RN, MSN, LNHA, has joined Van Dyk Health Care’s Ridgewood facility as its administrator.
Maybe you don’t want to be in that preferred network …
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Steven Littlehale
Jan 23, 2017
When it comes to contemplating joining caregiving networks, maybe you have more in common with the hospital than you think. Poor-performing hospitals tend to coexist in the same market as poor-performing...
$125 million SNF settlement contributes to $1 billion bump in fraud recoveries
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Jan 20, 2017
The $125 million settlement by Kindred Healthcare Inc. and a $30 million settlement with North American Health Care over therapy claims are counted among recoupments by the federal government that totaled...
A sensible approach to clearing the Medicare appeals backlog
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Elizabeth Newman
Jan 20, 2017
While hospitals and long-term care providers often disagree, providers are united on the thorny topic of backlogs for Medicare appeals.