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Aflac, the No. 1 provider of supplemental and guaranteed-renewable insurance in the United States, has launched the Real Cost Calculator, an innovative online tool that helps consumers understand the costs associated with common illnesses and injuries such as cancer, heart attack, fractured limbs and others.

Health Care DataWorks is providing an Enterprise Data Warehouse as part of a larger El Camino Hospital initiative to implement lean process management and leverage organizational data.

Lancaster Pollard, a national financial services firm that provides capital funding to health care, senior living and affordable housing sectors in Columbus, Ohio, has been named to Inc. Magazine's sixth annual Inc. 5000 list of the nation's fastest-growing private companies for the fourth time since the list's inception. The firm ranked 1,845 overall, improving significantly on last year's ranking of 2,361, and 98 among financial service companies.

Thomas R. Green, CEO of Columbus, Ohio-based investment firm Lancaster Pollard recently discussed financing capital projects with Healthcare Finance News Editor René Letourneau.

As a way to bring awareness to an inexpensive way to prevent injuries and death to children, the Ohio Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics (Ohio AAP) is sponsoring Bike Helmet Safety Awareness Week from May 7-11, 2012. According to Ohio AAP, a $10 bike helmet saves a healthcare system $41 per child.

The Ohio Hospital Association (OHA) will host Ohio hospitals, nursing homes, home health agencies and federal healthcare officials on Friday, March 23, in Columbus to begin the implementation of the Partnership for Patients program.

As skilled nursing facility (SNF) providers across Ohio face 2012, a new report reveals the depth of their financial challenges. Medicaid, the health program for low-income seniors and individuals with disabilities, underfunded Ohio SNFs by $262 million, or $14.31 per patient per day, in 2009. The report projected those figures to rise to $330 million and $18.23 per patient per day in 2011, but those calculations were done for Fiscal Year 2011, which did not take into account the Medicaid rate cut of nearly $10 per day imposed on Ohio SNFs by the state budget bill, House Bill 153. This cut took effect for Fiscal Year 2012, which began July 1, 2011.

A new analysis by Avalere Health finds that a new federal regulation recently issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will result in a $275.1 million reduction for Ohio seniors' Medicare-funded Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) care in FY 2012 -- the six highest cut nationally. This comes with the threat of yet another $42 billion national Medicare cut proposal from President Obama last week – and on top of the 5.8% state Medicaid cut recently passed in Columbus, prompting key state and national long term and post-acute care leaders to express deep concern about job losses and the escalating economic instability facing Ohio's SNF's -- the state's second largest health facility employer.

One of the things you're going to hear a lot in the next couple years is that ICD-10 is going to give healthcare providers much more data that they can use to improve patient care and efficiencies.