The American Medical Association has opined that it is ethical for physicians to charge for missed appointments, or for appointments not canceled at least 24 hours in advance, if patients are fully ...

As health plan leaders seek to close care gaps and improve member experience, it’s time to shift the paradigm of missed care from a failure to an opportunity for impact. Missed appointments are a ...

Appointment marked on calendar with highlighter For patients with both physical and mental health-related long-term conditions, missing healthcare appointments is associated with an increased risk of ...

Patient no-shows are a costly, intractable headache for healthcare providers. Millions of patients cancel, skip or reschedule appointments with their clinicians every year, creating vacant schedules ...

You feel a knot when your child walks through the door and a teacher asks about missed medical appointments. That small ...

FORT LEE, Va. (June 19, 2014) -- It's probably happened to all of us -- you get a slight injury or decide to finally talk to someone about that nagging health concern, so you call and make an ...

FORT BENNING, Ga. (March 6, 2013) -- Meeting the health-care demands of the Fort Benning community is already a challenging job, but officials at Martin Army Community Hospital said patients who miss ...

For every five appointments at Boston Children’s Hospital, one patient doesn’t show up. Missed appointments are a common problem at health systems. And they’re a particularly attractive target for ...

Instituting a policy to charge patients for missed appointments may reduce the number of no shows. Here are other methods of doing so: Make reminder calls. The calls should be 1 to 3 days prior to the ...