Just one week until DFWHC’s webinar “501r & IRS!”

04/05/2017

Just one week until the DFW Hospital Council (DFWHC) complimentary webinar “501r & IRS: When they call, can you prove compliance?” on Thursday, April 13 from 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. Register now for an event that now officially qualifies for continuing education credits for certified public accountants. Hosted in association with Crowe Horwath, LLP, the webinar will be introduced by … Read More

KPN Health – Generate Revenue by Optimizing Risk

02/28/2017

The DFW Hospital Council is posting blogs submitted by our Associate Members. The following was provided by KPN Health. For guidelines, please contact Chris Wilson at chrisw@dfwhc.org. By Brandy Killion, SVP, Clinical Performance, KPN Health, Inc. Healthcare in the U.S. is plunging toward another year of uncertainty, revenue compression and ever-increasing mandates for quality measurement. Hospitals have become increasingly focused … Read More

Just one week until DFWHC’s Hot Topic meeting!

09/22/2016

Last chance to register! It’s just one week until the DFW Hospital Council’s complimentary “Hot Topic” educational meeting “Every Cent Counts: Healthcare Finance and Reimbursement” on Thursday, September 29, at the Las Colinas Country Club in Irving from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. Topics to be covered: • S-10 update; • 340B update; • Medicare Appeals; • Provider-based issues; • … Read More

Hot Topic educational meeting set for Sept. 29

08/29/2016

The DFW Hospital Council will be hosting a complimentary “Hot Topic” educational meeting on Thursday, September 29 at the Las Colinas Country Club in Irving from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. A panel of experts will lead the event “Every Cent Counts: Healthcare Finance and Reimbursement.” Topics will include: • S-10 update; • 340B update; • Medicare Appeals; • Provider-based … Read More

Love analyzes GAO hospital report in D Healthcare story

01/30/2015

In a story posted this morning in D Healthcare Daily, W. Stephen Love, president CEO of the DFW Hospital Council (DFWHC), discussed numbers released this week in a survey by the U.S. Government Accountability Office. DFW hospitals, the GAO found, charged the second most in the country for hip replacement procedures, 23rd in coronary stents and 34th for appendectomies. In … Read More

To a Mouse…

10/15/2013

It is doubtful the great romantic poet Robert Burns was contemplating governmental shutdowns when he penned his 1785 poem, “To a Mouse on Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough.” John Steinbeck’s classic 1937 novel Of Mice and Men was named after a line from the Burn’s poem, “The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men.” But who would … Read More