Hospital/Physician Engagement: Complying With Stark Law and AKS, Protecting Tax Status, Avoiding Deal Breakers

Lots of healthcare data moves electronically between payers, providers, and members. Unfortunately, a substantial percentage of payments between payers and providers are still done with paper—resulting in slower transactions, high administrative costs, and lots of process friction. Watch this video to hear a large national payer share the strategy behind their company’s success in getting providers to sign up for electronic payments and to learn how you can optimize the adoption of electronic payments by your providers using Change Healthcare’s Payer Enrollment Services.

Both the definition and delivery of healthcare is evolving at an exponential rate. A swift convergence of medical advances, emerging technologies, consumer choices and expectations is accelerating change. Traditional borders are dissolving, and doctors, nurses, medical technicians and others are caring for patients face-to-face and from afar. While achieving secure interoperability within this environment is challenging, it is possible– with the right playbook that combines innovative technologies with best practices in patient care.

Many Health Information Management departments are still prepping charts that come from all departments of a hospital system. This means that there is a potential time lag in making this critical information available to providers. The first place to start is selecting a document imaging solution for any paper being produced outside of your EMR system. But let's take this a step further. What if we move document imaging out of the HIM department and into each clinical area of a hospital?

Today’s Clinical Microbiology laboratory is under tremendous pressure to perform quality testing efficiently while limiting additional cost to the medical institution. Many laboratories are being asked to streamline sample collection products due to consolidation. In doing so, laboratories must strategically evaluate each sample to determine the best type of collection and transport system.