Bon Secours Mercy Health (BSMH), the fifth largest Catholic healthcare ministry in the nation, is doing its part to boost healthcare quality, safety and cost effectiveness. To accomplish this goal, the health system actively pursues new ways to enhance care…
Community Health Network is an integrated health system based in Indianapolis and central Indiana with a focus of innovation in care delivery. Despite financial hardships from COVID-19, Community Health Network was able to obtain a positive financial impact of nearly…
As part of their overall effort to more appropriately utilize labs, Geisinger believed that they needed to help educate clinical decision makers about just how much those reflex orders were costing the healthcare system. To do so, they turned to…
At the beginning of next year, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will require providers and practitioners become compliant with the Protecting Access to Medicare Act (PAMA) to ensure high-quality patient care. PAMA aims to address waste by…
A large, multi-state health system was challenged with choosing a solution to achieve the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 (PAMA) compliance, which requires that all advanced imaging services meet the appropriate use criteria (AUC) with a fully qualified…