Paving the road to Medicare savings
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St. Joseph's Hospital in Asheville, NC, managed to cut Medicare-related losses in half by handling specific illnesses or diseases with coordinated care plans. The hospital expects to record virtually no Medicare losses in 1996 after cutting losses to $1.2 million in 1995 from losses of $3.8 million in 1994 and $6.9 million in 1993. The critical paths approach was carried out through the work of seven 15-member multidisciplinary teams.
Publication Name: Hospitals & Health Networks
Subject: Health care industry
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Year: 1996
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Why tie the knot?
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Healthcare organizations often prefer to loosely affiliate, rather than merge, but such arrangements can lead to conflicts that affiliates, as legally separate entities, can have trouble resolving. Charlotte, NC's Mercy Health Services and the Charlotte Mecklenburg Hospital Authority, for example, finally settled on a merger, when their affiliation unraveled. The authority bought Mercy in Jun 1995.
Publication Name: Hospitals & Health Networks
Subject: Health care industry
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Year: 1995
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Hospital showdown lets voters decide
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Tarpon Springs, FL's Helen Ellis Memorial Hospital sought in 1994 to partner with Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corp, but the city quashed the deal by refusing to hold a public referendum on it. The hospital changed its strategy and joined Columbia/HCA's managed-care network, but the city, disapproving of that deal also, called a referendum on the sale of the hospital. Voters turned down the sale.
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Year: 1996
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