Hospital Business Acumen-10 Healthcare Terms You Should Know! Part 1

Are you becoming lost in the vast array of new healthcare terms, acronyms and abbreviations that are being introduced and bantered around? Don’t be alarmed! This is one of the challenges that sales professionals face in today’s market. For specialty sales representatives many of these new terms, and acronyms relate to the specific product or […]

Understanding Critical Access Hospitals

Purpose In 1997 legislation was enacted as part of the Balanced Budget Act that authorized each state to establish a State Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program (aka Flex Program) under which certain facilities that participated in the Medicare program could become Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs). These were current hospitals with Medicare participation; hospitals that stopped […]

Pop Quiz on Hospital Types & Ownership Acumen

  Have some fun and test your business knowledge of hospital types and ownership. For each statement select the most appropriate choice. Statements A hospital in which any profit is returned to its shareholders. A hospital owned by the federal government and operated by the VA. A hospital that operates as a Not-For-Profit (NFP) hospital […]

Hospital Classification Made Easy!

As a result of new healthcare legislation, hospital consolidation will continue to change at a rapid pace. New specialty hospitals are opening and with a different focus in today’s environment. This dynamic creates a new challenge – for sales professionals trying to keep the business in perspective. A taxonomy or classification system can help us […]