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