The entire healthcare world has known for a long time that yesterday was coming: the day that CMS started penalizing hospitals for what are called avoidable readmissions. That's right--THAT just happe[...]
Storms threaten the delivery of healthcare services, but a little planning and some good technology can help hospitals, ACOs and post acute providers of all types. In the mid Atlantic, we've just ente[...]
The Healthcare Finance Managers Association (HFMA) posted their most recent HFMA Education report, titled "Using Formal Process Improvement for Revenue Cycle Management." I am going to ask you to igno[...]
Hospice and Hospital Market Research Provider Dispels Myths Regarding Post Acute Care Recent Healthcare Market Resources (HMR) research verifies that hospitals' "inhouse" agencies do not command a dom[...]
I came across a post on the American Medical News web site. Discussing the issue that more self-insured employers are considering direct contracting with healthcare providers. The drive health benefit[...]
Maybe you don't want to give a copy of Fifty Shades of Gray to your elderly home care patients, but you might just learn some valuable things from the block-buster novel. If you are a physical therapi[...]
Whether you are part of a hospital system like Johns Hopkins Home Care Group in Baltimore or an independent Physical Therapy agency like Rehab Maxx in Chicagoland, Ankota's customers must sometimes fa[...]
Our friends at Boyd & Nicholas, "The Cost Report People" provide a weekly newsletter that is a nice overview of issues affecting home care. This week they included a nice summary of a story in Hea[...]
We at Ankota strongly believe that care coordination and home care are the keys to improved health care. The math is simple:
As a consumer, measuring quality is usually second nature. You can look at a restaurant or a handbag or a pair of shoes and almost immediately decide whether it's a quality product or not. Perception [...]
Patients don't take their meds... and this is not only a huge problem for elderly care but is a broad issue across all ages and demographics. According to an article attached here from Pharmaceutical [...]
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