How Will the New Mental Health Parity Laws Affect You?
Summary: Just announced, new mental health parity provisions to become effective in 2014. How will the new Mental Health Parity Laws affect you?
What You Need to Know About Bundled Payments
A new Medicare payment initiative is currently underway to transform how hospitals deliver care. By changing hospitals payment structure for services, the initiative’s designers hope to reward health systems that improve patient outcomes and deliver care in innovative ways that decrease costs. On January 31, 2013, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced […]
Is Patient Centricity the New Trend for Pharma?
Is Patient Centricity the New Trend for Pharma? In the post reform environment the pharmaceutical industry has been shown by many to have emerged triumphant. Pharmaceutical executives were deeply embedded in the process of creating healthcare reform legislation and the industry orchestrated a balanced trade whereby they would agree to financial offsets posed by closing […]
Can You Afford to Go Without Health Insurance?
Health insurance is expensive, but can you afford to go without? What about those unexpected healthcare costs – the trips to the emergency room, the car accident, the diagnosis of cancer? Can you really afford to take a gamble that these won’t happen to you?
Preparing for an Accountable Care Organization Conversion
Summary: Accountable Care Organization are becoming more prevalent. Are you in the process of deciding whether or not to become an ACO? Do you have the facts you need to make the right choice?
Lean Thinking For Healthcare
Lean Thinking For Healthcare With the advent of the highly controversial and experimental Affordable Care Act physicians and healthcare organizations are looking for innovative ways to boost efficiency within the healthcare system so that quality improves while cost savings are achieved. As part of this initiative, more and more healthcare organizations are turning to “lean […]
BHM Launches Fresh New Client Responsive Website
On November 1, 2013, BHM launched a sleek new website which is mobile friendly and provides a new design, new features, new pages, and a new level of functionality for current and prospective clients.
Infographic: Some Deaths Are Preventable
Preventable deaths add significantly to the cost of healthcare. Check out this infographic to find out more.
Happy Halloween | Is Healthcare.Gov Haunted?
Happy Halloween From BHM! Yes, we know. Healthcare is one of the scariest things out there right now for millions of people who are waiting to see how the Affordable Care Act Implementation will play out. From the law which has been consistently fought over, delayed, and unraveled – to the healthcare.gov website which continues […]
Readmissions – Reducing Readmissions Through Collaborative Efforts
Readmissions have become a focal point over the last couple of years, especially for CMS. The costs have risen to the point of assessing penalties to hospitals whose readmission rates are above the expected and/or standard.
