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Survey Results about COI Management in Healthcare: Part 1

While healthcare organizations largely are committed to complying with COI Management rules, there is a breadth of how they go about it. HCCS—A HealthStream Company surveyed 281 U.S. healthcare compliance leaders about the current state of their COI compliance programs.

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A final healthcare cost is reached after co-pays, deductibles, co-insurance, and hosts of other factors are considered, all of which vary from patient to patient. No wonder surprises are common and alarming.

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Are You Fatigued by Your Credentialing and Privileging Processes?

Today’s CVOs and MSOs are being forced to manage more employed positions than ever before, which translates into increased pressure to credential and enroll providers and to do so fast! No wonder they are exhausted!

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Align Your Business Needs with Your Compliance Solution for Determining Regulatory Training

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Understanding the Primary Nursing Care Model

The primary care nursing model is often misunderstood, yet when properly deployed can lead to better patient outcomes and improved nursing staff satisfaction and retention.

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Compliance Includes Preventing Criminal Healthcare Fraud Cases

Compliance officers must work to prevent criminal healthcare fraud cases, especially given the expansion of DOJ focus areas for investigating possible fraudulent action.

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The Rising Cost of Health Insurance and Coverage Concerns Generate Anxiety

Providers are finding themselves in the crosshairs of consumer ire over insurance costs and coverage fears, as well as costs of one-time and ongoing care.

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Nurse Staffing: The Ideal Candidate

Finding the perfect nurse for your team may be impossible, but by looking for some basic qualities, you can find the right person and make the most impact.

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Ten Conclusions about Conflict Of Interest (COI) Management in Healthcare: Article

To evaluate how healthcare organizations are managing their efforts to reduce COIs, HCCS—A HealthStream Company surveyed 281 U.S. healthcare compliance leaders about the current state of their compliance programs.

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Healthcare Regulatory Training Requirements Never Stop Changing!

Meeting regulatory requirements for mandatory annual education doesn’t have to be a headache, even when requirements keep changing.

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When Healthcare is Expensive: the Impact on the Patient Financial Experience

A fairly routine inpatient procedure likely will cost the patient, even with insurance, well into the thousands of dollars. There’s also significant sticker shock for consumers, not just around inpatient stays and surgeries, but for day-to-day medical needs.

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Hot Topics for 2019 in Healthcare Compliance: Part 2

Where healthcare compliance professionals spend their time is changing as accrediting bodies and regulators find new areas that merit investigation. This blog post comes from our Part 2 round-up of important topics covered at the HCCA 2018 Enforcement Conference.

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The Commitment to Conflict of Interest (COI) Management Is Mostly Strong across U.S. Healthcare

HCCS recently surveyed 281 healthcare compliance leaders about their organizations’ COI programs. One of the survey’s goals was to establish an industry-wide picture of the commitment to COI management and examine it across multiple program variables.

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Performance-Guided Learning Can Improve Employee Retention & Boost Performance

An employee education plan based on performance-guided learning will strengthen engagement and retention by providing staff with a thoughtful, customized and effective way to achieve their professional goals.

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How to Navigate the Healthcare Regulatory Training Maze – Article

Making sure your providers are receiving every bit of the learning they need can seem impossible to address in in its entirety. This article examines how meeting regulatory requirements for mandatory education doesn’t have to be a headache.

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The Patient Financial Experience Requires More Focus than Ever Before in Healthcare

Patients’ impressions, especially around cost and perceived value, are having an increasing effect on healthcare providers’ bottom lines.

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The Opportunity to Standardize Healthcare Conflict Of Interest (COI) Management

Our survey of healthcare compliance leaders found that there’s room for standardization in the way healthcare organizations address COI compliance. Here are three findings relevant to the current fragmented ways many hospitals work to uncover and eliminate conflicts of interest.

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Six Essential Elements of a Successful Resuscitation Program for the Care Continuum

Resuscitation success is a goal that organizations across the healthcare continuum are going to have to work harder to achieve. Using hospitals’ experience as a template is going to help them get there sooner.

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Better Onboarding Impacts Outcomes – the Case for Nurse Residency Programs

Onboarding is the time to start new nurses off with a strong foundation by ensuring they have good mentorship, correct expectations, and a proper support system.

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How Healthcare Organizations Say Conflict of Interest (COI) Management Needs to Improve

HCCS—A HealthStream Company recently surveyed healthcare leaders about the COI compliance programs in their organizations. Here’s how these leaders thought their COI Management processes needed to be improved.

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