2018 CPT and HCPCS Code Changes: A Resource for Hospitals to Ensure Compliance
AMA updates CPT codes annually, effective January 1. CMS updates HCPCS quarterly, with major updates effective every January. The annual…
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The CVS-Aetna Juggernaut: Top Considerations for Hospitals and Clinics
How will the proposed $69 billion merger of CVS, the nation’s largest pharmacy, and Aetna, one of the country’s largest…
How Hawaii’s Rural Hospitals (Barely) Stay Afloat
Hawaii Business Magazine | Nov. 2017 For some, things have gotten better, but others face an even more difficult future.…
Anthem forces trend toward value care with policy to stop covering hospital outpatient CT scans and MRI (unless deemed medically necessary)
by Opal Greenway, Stroudwater Associates
Rural Hospital Closures since 2010
There have been 82 closures since 2010 and 121 since 2005. (Counts do not include those that have closed and…
Hawaii Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program Conference
“The Shifting Sands of Health Care”| October 18-20, 2017 | Waikoloa, Hawaii Hawaii Department of Health Office of Primary Care…
Healthcare Assoc. of New York State-Iroquois Program for Small Community and Rural Hospitals
October 12, 2017 | East Syracuse, NY Featuring Eric Shell, Stroudwater Associates