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Web Exclusive: RAC Tip: How to Determine Inpatient Admission Date, Time
While Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released guidance on hospital inpatient admission decisions, it...
Baptist Health South Florida doubles profit in fiscal 2010
Baptist Health South Florida more than doubled its income in fiscal year 2010 as its hospitals attracted more...
Web Exclusive: 4 Ways to RAC-Proof Hospital Admissions
As we start the new year, financial leaders should ask their teams to make a resolution to prevent "wrong...
Web Exclusive: CDC Misplaced $8.2M in Property, Audit Shows
The federal government's top medical research laboratory cannot account for about $8.2 million in missing or...
Jackson Health transition chief gains respect
Three times a month, Ted Shaw leaves his cramped office at Jackson Health System in Miami, gets on a plane and seven...
Web Exclusive: 3 RAC Audit Survival Tips
Nearly 70% of Recovery Audit Contractors audit results are overturned through the right appeals process. Organizations...
Firms trim health insurance costs with dependent audits
  A new kind of audit is becoming standard procedure in many workplaces. Looking for ways to cut costs...
HCA 2Q up 3.9% on higher revenue, fewer bad-debt provisions
HCA Inc.'s second-quarter profit grew 3.9% as the hospital chain reported higher revenue and fewer bad-debt provisions...
Not Just RACs: Providers Must Prepare for MICs Too
Providers nationwide are certainly familiar with Recovery Audit Contractors, or RACs. But perhaps less familiar are...
Escalating Medicare and Medicaid Auditing on the Horizon
It's no longer just RAC, MAC, CERT, and ZPIC audits looking to ensure the accuracy of Medicare payments. Providers are...

Book: Marketer's Guide to Community Benefit Reporting and IRS Form 990H
This book and CD-ROM shows healthcare marketers how to gather data effectively from every corner of their organizations...
Book: The HIM Director's Handbook, Second Ed.
This second edition is an updated version of the earlier best seller and details everything you need to know to direct...
Audio Conference: Physician Supervision for Hospital Outpatient services
During this 90-minute intermediate-level audio conference, our speakers will explain the requirements and walk through...
Audio Conference: Manage Revenue Integrity and Audit Activity
During this 90-minue audio conference, our speakers will explain how to work across departments and build a strong...
Audio Conference: PEPPER for Critical Access Hospitals: Identify Your Audit Risk
During this 90-mintue audio conference, our speakers will explain PEPPER and tell you how to use your report to...
Audio Conference: 2012 IPPS Final Rule Explained
This 90-minute audio conference is your life line. Our experts comb the rule and pull out the information you need to...
Audio Conference: Physician Supervision in Hospital Outpatient Departments
Physician supervision in the outpatient setting is always difficult to get your hands around . You need to understand...
Webcast: PEPPER Report 2012: Improve your organization’s Medicare claims profile
During this 90-minute webcast, our experts will show you how to simplify the 2012 PEPPER report, use its data to...