PDS Expands into Oregon and Oklahoma Markets 
In a major business expansion, Professional Data Services
(PDS) is now making its innovative web-based market intelligence and revenue management tool available to hospitals in Oregon and Oklahoma.
PDS recently signed agreements with the Oregon Association of Hospitals and Health Systems (OAHHS) and the Oklahoma Hospital Association (OHA) under which the two industry associations will market the PDS product to their members. OAHHS membership includes 58 hospitals and health systems in Oregon. OHA represents more than 130 hospitals and health care entities across the state of Oklahoma.
PDS collects inpatient, outpatient and emergency room paid claims data from participating hospitals and offers it in aggregated form to users. The information allows hospitals that purchase the PDS tool to quickly and accurately benchmark specific service line revenues by payor against those at comparable hospitals. PDS clients find the data to be invaluable - and highly cost-effective - when entering into managed care contract negotiations or when establishing realistic and attainable long-term revenue management goals. Read here what others are saying about PDS.
In continued partnership,
Jim Barber
Chairman & CEO, PDS
President & CEO, HASC
"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure" -- Colin Powell
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11 Ways Hospitals Can Increase Profitability in 2013
Even though Medicare and Medicaid could face monumental challenges this year with the threat of  sequestration and the increase in the number of people insured under Medicaid, there are still specific steps that hospitals can take to increase profitability. This article by Bob Herman in Becker Hospital Review outlines 11 revenue enhancing and cost saving ideas, many of them strategies that PDS has also been promoting, such as increasing profitable service lines and negotiating for better rates from your commercial business. PDS is is here to help you make the most of your revenue so you can mitigate the uncertainty on the government side.
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Getting Ready for Contract Negotiations
Join us for this popular 20 minute interactive webinar where we will discuss how you can use PDS data as a powerful tool to level the playing field during contract negotiations. We
 will discuss how to identify areas of opportunity for revenue enhancement, prepare for new payment models, as well as how to dig into the data.
Date: February 28th
Time: 11:00 a.m. PST, 1:00 p.m., CST |
