A recent piece of federal legislation intended to address the opioid crisis across the United States may have some unintended consequences. In attempting to prohibit “patient brokering” in the narrow ...

Stiff competition in the health care industry is requiring organizations to evolve and adopt digital marketing strategies in order to survive. Many patients are now researching health care practices ...

Functional, standardized referral pathways can make or break patient outcomes. While this is true in overall health, nowhere has it become more apparent than in vascular health, where many patients in ...

For many health care systems, patient leakage – when patients leave a health care system’s network in favor of out-of-network providers – is a rampant problem that results in substantial lost revenue.

About Tennr Tennr automates patient processing for referral-based care. Whether referrals come in by fax, email, or e-portal, Tennr helps providers convert more patients, cut denials, and deliver care ...

As healthcare reform increases transparency and allows patients to become more savvy consumers, healthcare providers will need to be creative when it comes to attracting patients to their facilities.

This article demonstrates that few patient encounters with indicators of need for diabetes self-management education result in a provider referral to the service. Objectives: This study measured the ...

Referrals to PR and PC for IPF patients in England remain low, despite evidence of their benefits. Smoking history, COPD diagnosis, and male sex were positively associated with PR referrals. Older age ...

For decades, the patient referral process has been plagued by inefficiency and fragmentation. Patient data remains scattered across systems, forcing staff to spend excessive time manually compiling ...

Sutter Health will pay more than $30 million to the federal government and a whistleblower to settle a lawsuit alleging the health system paid physicians to refer patients to their hospitals. The suit ...

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