The average hospital today is operating at a margin less than three percent. Whether above or below this average, most hospital executives are exploring unique sources of revenues, cost reduction and methods to improve patient outcomes.... More
Emergency department, or ED, overcrowding is a well-documented problem in today’s hospitals. One major reason for the bottleneck is the process for getting the patient from the ED to the nursing unit to begin their hospital care... More
Effective January 1, 2018, total knee arthroplasty (TKA) was removed from the Inpatient Only List (IPO) and assigned an Ambulatory Payment Classification (APC) payment... More
The challenges facing independent community hospitals are well-documented and have been accentuated only by recent (and still unfolding) industry transformation. Yet, a number of independent hospitals have survived — even thrived — absent a full affiliation with a larger health system... More
