Components of some power tool sets used in the OR suites at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore were going missing — and it was costing the facility nearly $150,000 a year to replace them. Something had to be done to limit the losses and preserve the occasionally tenuous relationship between the ORs and central sterile processing...

Ah, Thanksgiving. Time for turkey, dressing and pumpkin pie. It's over the river and through the woods to grandmother's house we go — whether physically or virtually. Seems like only yesterday we were celebrating this always-filling holiday in a totally different world. Despite the pandemic and the most divisive election in recent memory, I...

Bundled payment models work wonders for facilities that perform predictable, repeatable surgeries such as total joint replacements. In an industry where payment terms are often so complex even the most skilled finance staff have trouble understanding how (and why) the payer came up with its reimbursement rate, a bundled payment arrangement is...