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This digital document is an article from National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, published by The National Underwriter Company on May 15, 1995. The length of the article is 832 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
From the supplier: Risk managers and insurers affected by health plan costs are worried about a Supreme Court decision that allows New York to collect fees from patients covered by health maintenance organizations and commercial insurers, despite contradicting federal law. The insurance industry believed the court would agree with an appeals court decision that the Employee Retirement Income Security Act preempted New York state law.
Citation Details
Title: Risk managers, insurers worried about ERISA ruling.(Supreme Court ruling on health plan fees, Employee Retirement Income Security Act.)
Author: Mary Jane Fisher
Publication: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 15, 1995
Publisher: The National Underwriter Company
Issue: n20 Page: p2(2)
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Risk managers, insurers worried about ERISA ruling.: An article from: … & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management
Sunday, April 4th, 2010MediGate – A Complete Hospital Management System Software
Friday, April 2nd, 2010 MediGate HMS Complete Hospital Management System
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Calif. Blue Cross cuts PPO doctor fees. : An article from: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010Product Description
This digital document is an article from National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, published by The National Underwriter Company on June 7, 1993. The length of the article is 679 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
From the supplier: Blue Cross of California plans to reduce fees paid to the more than 13,000 physicians who are part of its managed care system by 5-6% to curtail the rapidly rising costs of physician services. Blue Cross, in a May 11, 1993, letter, notified participating physicians that surgeons, radiologists, anesthesiologists and pathologists would have fee cuts but that primary physician fees would remain intact. The California Medical Assn expressed displeasure with the decision, which has received nationwide attention.
Citation Details
Title: Calif. Blue Cross cuts PPO doctor fees. (preferred provider organization)
Author: Alfred G. Haggerty
Publication: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 7, 1993
Publisher: The National Underwriter Company
Issue: n23 Page: p6(2)
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Complete Hospital Management System
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010Courtesy :- (http://www.chinarsoftech.co.in/medigate.html)
MediGate is designed for multi specialty hospitals, to cover a wide range of hospital administration and management processes. It is an integrated end–to-end Hospital Management System that provides relevant information across the hospital to support effective decision making for patient care, hospital administration and critical financial accounting, in a seamless flow.
Registration
The Registration module is an integrated patient management system, which captures complete and relevant patient information.
Patient Registration Details
Inpatient and Outpatient Registration
Appointment Scheduling (Patient / Doctor wise)
Doctor’s Schedule Summary
Doctors Daily Schedule List
Patient Visit History
Patient Visit Slip
Billing
The Patient Billing module handles all types of billing for long-term care. This module facilitates cashier and billing operations for different categories of patients like Outpatient, Inpatient and Referral. It provides automatic posting of charges related to different services like bed charges, lab tests conducted, medicines issued, consultant’s fee, food, beverage and telephone charges etc. The Billing Screens is used for In-patient and Outpatient Billing and Invoicing. Further more the charges for various services rendered can be recorded through service module and this can be used for billing purposes.
Payment Modes / Details
Patient Billing Details
Automatic Room and Medicine Charges
Auto-generated Codes and Billing Criteria
Outpatient Management
The Outpatient module serves as an entry point to schedule an appointment with the Hospital Resident Doctor or Consultant Doctor for Medical Consultations and diagnosis. This module supports doctors to take better and timely consultation decisions by providing instant access to comprehensive patient information. External Doctors visit to in patients can be defined as “Doctor Category”. Some patients may avail only the hospital facilities like Lab, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine, and Physiotherapy and so on.
Patient’s Appointments
Daily / Weekly Schedule Summary
Appointment Scheduling / Rescheduling Facility
Outpatient Medical Observation Details
Investigation / Treatment History
Inpatient Management
The inpatient module is designed to take care of all the activities and functions pertaining to Inpatient Management. This module automates the day-to-day administrative actives and provides instant access to other modules, which leads to a better patient care. It provides comprehensive data pertaining to Admission of Patients & Ward Management: Availability of beds, Collection of advance and so on. The Inpatient module also deals with Ward Management: Shifting from one ward to the other, Bed availability, nursing notes, charge slip and so on.
Admission Request
IP Medical Observation
Discharge Notification Summary
Expected Date and Time of Discharge
Billing
Pharmacy
Pharmacy module deals with the automation of general workflow and administration management process of a pharmacy. This module deals with the activities such as:
Enquiry
Purchase Order
Supplier information
Maintenance of Medicine inventory
Goods receipt
Stock in Hand reports
Service
The service module deals with all the services available in the hospital and the charges for these services are stored through this module. There are various services that are available in the hospital can be seen in
SERVICE MASTER: This master gives the details about package details, Group detail
ROOM TYPE MASTER: This gives the details about Room Type (Ex: Private, Semi-private, Deluxe, ICU, Suite etc) and their charges.
Med mal coverage sought in captives. : An article from: National … & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management
Saturday, March 20th, 2010Product Description
This digital document is an article from National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, published by The National Underwriter Company on August 26, 2002. The length of the article is 8750 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
Citation Details
Title: Med mal coverage sought in captives. (Buyer’s Survey).(medical liability coverage, captive insurance entities)(Brief Article)
Author: Caroline McDonald
Publication: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 26, 2002
Publisher: The National Underwriter Company
Volume: 106 Issue: 34 Page: 21(1)
Article Type: Brief Article
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Revenue cycle management for Hospitals and ASCs
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010Sometimes hospital receivables go wrong, sometimes very difficult! But how do receivables become out of balance and what is the best approach to determine the rate of rotation of the claims of your organization?Reasons for non-performing loansAn important contribution to a slowdown in cash collections is that third-party insurance, Medicare and Medicaid pay effectively requires that requests for accounts fully in line with their individual needs. Additional cost for the service, the frequency of changes to these requirements.In addition, hospitals with a recovery of A / R is a lack of internal control can be (ie the ability of the ‘Office of Finance of patient self-control), low morale, fear of staff and staff lack skills needed to work effectively. Often, the factors that contribute to the system is not working properly, revenue cycle services does not cooperate, and the management has not provided the necessary support or guidance.ConsiderationsIf a breakthrough commercial / A If you think that you need drastic action towards an immediate “turnaround”, you must first (a plan, and you always know what) should be the next step. This is the key! The are engaged, the more you need to plan.The consideration is whether you have sufficient resources to achieve your goals and money AR. More and more resources, the PFS to require short-term rentals are available to work on the backlog. Hospitals are willing to short-term costs of forcing the purchase of an expert, when instead of him, created at the expense of hiring a full salary for permanent employees in time. Agency may provide a better solution for bottlenecks and delays. This approach can be very lucrative, if temporary workers are paid, are reliable and talented. A different approach is used by many families to outsource part of it s assets to an outside vendor specializing in applications for healthcare and collections. A / R outsourcing has spread beyond the resources of hospitals to improve their health research capacity working. Using a medical billing specialist and the collection service is often effective, but not always a guarantee for payment within the appropriate time. Good planning prior to any agreement, subcontracting is essential. This approach can not be terrible if they are adequately taken into consideration the key issues are the system interfaces are not sufficiently prepared, or a long game is not integrated in the process ..Mobilizing the support of a revenue cycle consultant’s further consideration in most of these people are experts and have no agenda or bias that may influence the decision making process. Then take the necessary decisions, regardless of the popularity of these decisions and policy implications. Counselors of revenue cycle management can help to reorganize hospitals inefficient working methods, procedures and processes, while a lot of time for staff training. These people are focused on operational aspects of managing change, without being too wrapped up in internal conflicts, often their efforts to achieve recovery.Starting a Project TurnaroundIf you try to do an A / R recovery, without any intermediary with the outside world? If the goal is to change the environment, how to deal with the barriers, which probably contributed to problems in the registration of opposition at first, the answer is less clear that this practice should be seriously considered. Another important consideration is whether the internal management team to devote the time necessary to return to the clinic rapidly during the operation of financial services have their day-to-business days at the same time. Rising receive in-the-know executives of the financial health of the whole country, the Bureau of enterprise in the form of a temporary external support.If you bring in external assistance on board, there are some basic rules to follow when collecting debts:- Create an emergency situation for all those that alter the status quo: if you decide to move, we need effective methods to identify and implement new systems.- Define your goals for the accounts of the patient: Even if the patient data and where it all ends, remember the other parts of the cycle of revenue, during the evaluation and development of the roadmap for change. Patient access, ancillary services and the Health Information Management (HIM players) play an important role in revenue cycle, and inefficient or ineffective operations in these areas could have a significant impact on accounts receivable management.- Creation of a ridge at the bottom operational review including an analysis of billing systems, billing practices, methods, personnel, staff, and a comprehensive analysis of claims: This should be the first step towards a better revenue cycle performance. All the senior employees in the maintenance companies and key individuals in the study and effort.- Develop a plan of action: to review the current program or training recently, the hospital and to assess whether changes or training is the best ..- Communicate the vision and goal of all: Make sure to use a lot of time for staff to teach life after implementation. An integral part of the process, informing each stage of the road. People are hesitant, not knowing what they know.- Actively pursue the collection of all debts over 45 days of work outside the ordinary needs to be, will simply maintain the status quo because the process of change will inevitably lead to a loss of productivity in the short term during the transition. Ask your work a few collectors of the evening in prime time every week, encouraging staff to improve their productivity and assign job responsibilities to achieve optimum results.- Reduce denials: Another important area of intervention of the remediation program will be implemented a program of denial of effective management. Many managers of financial health to pay for a good understanding of the reasons for the refusal. Need specific rules and procedures for the treatment of pre-certification and denials of authorization. But, above all, a monitor is needed to determine the causes and measures continuously in progress to remove them.- Avoid late billing: the identification of applications that have a low probability of recovery. Both the deduction of such accounts or outsourced to a supplier can make a real effort to collect on the finish. If you believe that internal resources may be available, or notify the organization of the creditors in order to balance the need for overtime, if necessary, and implement a targeted surveillance. When internal resources are not considered available to hire temporary workers trained to work on the backlog, while permanent staff, focuses on maintaining existing accounts and execution systems, procedures, protocol and workflow changes. Parties represented with a good rental agency service revenue cycle employees only when they need extra help to contain costs. Also, in some cases, it is a good idea for a permanent position when one opens a door to listen to candidates. Accounting services to hospitalized patients are more temporary workers to take over the long-term plans, whereas 10-15 years ago, spent the time just to fill occasional gaps.Achieving successFinancial climate, such as hospitals, billing and collection operations are, are one of the most important aspects in managing a company’s health. Cash-health, in general, are victims of a fall hunger / R turnover and a calendar of deterioration / R aging.Turning around a cycle of recovery in trouble, is not an easy task. Most hospitals must first determine exactly what the infrastructure of their revenue cycle wrong, and then create a job, the necessary changes while maintaining the flow of money put into the interval.How you choose to do in an attempt to recover patient records, remember that good planning and allocation of sufficient resources to produce the maximum power is the key to the success of an action / recovery R.Prexus Health India meets the needs of the revenue cycle of hospitals through temporary work.
For additional information, please visit online at http://www.prexusindia.com or contact Dheeraj Aggarwal, at 513-322-1637.
Full-time solutions to temporary staffing insurance: for apartment management companies that use temporary staffing, having the right insurance coverage is critical.: An article from: Units
Friday, March 12th, 2010Product Description
This digital document is an article from Units, published by National Apartment Association on January 1, 2007. The length of the article is 817 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
Citation Details
Title: Full-time solutions to temporary staffing insurance: for apartment management companies that use temporary staffing, having the right insurance coverage is critical.
Author: Rick Penn
Publication: Units (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2007
Publisher: National Apartment Association
Volume: 31 Issue: 1 Page: 58(2)
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Insurers seen scrambling for hospital D&O market. : An article from: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010Product Description
This digital document is an article from National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, published by The National Underwriter Company on March 11, 1991. The length of the article is 705 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
Citation Details
Title: Insurers seen scrambling for hospital D&O market. (directors’ and officers’ liability insurance)
Author: David M. Katz
Publication: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 11, 1991
Publisher: The National Underwriter Company
Issue: n10 Page: p2(2)
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Ore. Blues to impose fixed fee system.: An article from: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management
Saturday, March 6th, 2010Product Description
This digital document is an article from National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, published by The National Underwriter Company on March 27, 1989. The length of the article is 5987 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
Citation Details
Title: Ore. Blues to impose fixed fee system.
Author: Michael Parks
Publication: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 27, 1989
Publisher: The National Underwriter Company
Issue: n13 Page: p21(1)
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Hospital mergers fuel self-insurance surge. : An article from: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010Product Description
This digital document is an article from National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, published by The National Underwriter Company on October 9, 1989. The length of the article is 1241 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
Citation Details
Title: Hospital mergers fuel self-insurance surge. (Self Insurance Review)
Author: Douglas H. Hartman
Publication: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 9, 1989
Publisher: The National Underwriter Company
Issue: n41 Page: p13(3)
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