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Reimbursement

HHS Secretary Alex Azar promotes value-based payment for skilled nursing facilities

HHS pushes value-based payment for skilled nursing facilities

Revenue Cycle Management

HIMSS Analytics survey shows patients want convenient payment options

What providers need to know about the payment experience patients want

Strategic Planning

Ascension Michigan rebrands more hospitals amid clinical integration project

Ascension Michigan rebrands more hospitals

Capital Finance

AHA, Philips, UPMC launch $30M venture fund for cardiovascular innovation

AHA, Philips, UPMC launch $30M venture fund for cardiovascular innovation

Supply Chain

Why it's time to revisit hospital supply chain contracts to start saving money

Expert tips for finding big savings in hospital supply chain

Accounting & Financial Management

HIMSS18 Business of Healthcare Symposium to focus on finding success in a value-based world

HIMSS18 symposium: Finding success in value-based care

Budgeting

Costly physician performance metrics have serious flaws, study finds

Performance metrics: Costly and potentially flawed

Quality and Safety

Hospital-acquired conditions decline 8% over 2 years

Hospital-acquired conditions down 8%

Billing and Collections

CMS price posting rule may spark confusion when prices don't match what patients have to pay

CMS price posting rule: Clarity or chaos?

Claims Processing

How to manage MVA and workers' compensation claims successfully

How to manage MVA and workers' compensation claims successfully

Workforce

Athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush leaves, board says it will consider sale or merger

Athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush is out

Operations

Opioid epidemic: Turns out patients are happier when doctors lower their dose

Reducing opioid dosages raises patient satisfaction, study finds

Medical Devices

A more cost effective, clinically sound approach to hemodialysis treatment

A cost-saving hemodialysis treatment

Hospital/physician relations

Hospitals are losing money on employed physicians: Here's how to save the bottom line and your staff

How hospitals can boost ROI on employed physicians

Construction & Facilities Management

Here are the new hospital construction, expansion projects revealed in May

New hospital construction, expansion projects

Compliance & Legal

Oncologists sue Health and Human Services Secretary Azar over Part B drug payment cuts

Oncologists sue HHS over Part B drug payment cuts

Policy and Legislation

Attorney General Jeff Sessions will not defend Affordable Care Act's individual mandate

AG Jeff Sessions will not defend ACA's individual mandate

Community Benefit

AHA report: Hospitals spend almost $3 trillion, support more than 16 million jobs

AHA: Hospitals drive $3 trillion in spending for national economy, support 16 million jobs

Accountable Care

ACO Partner rewards 148 physicians with $148,000 in shared savings

ACO Partner rewards physicians for shared savings

Acute Care

Where acute care hospitals can find cost-savings in palliative care

Palliative care can yield cost-savings in acute care settings

Ambulatory Care

Medical schools, teaching hospitals account for 3% of US GDP, report shows

Med schools, teaching hospitals are 3% of GDP

Analytics

UnitedHealthcare partners with Quest Diagnostics on lab data

UnitedHealthcare, Quest partner on lab data

Business Intelligence

UPDATED: Geisinger CEO will not lead Amazon, JPMorgan, Berkshire Hathaway healthcare company

UPDATED: Geisinger CEO will not lead new Amazon alliance

ICD-10 & Coding

Physician practices examine risk adjustment coding in wake of federal lawsuits

Practices keeping close watch on risk adjustment coding

Meaningful Use

CMS overhauls meaningful use EHR program, renames it 'Promoting Interoperability'

CMS overhauls meaningful use as 'Promoting Interoperability'

Medicare & Medicaid

CMS releases scorecard to promote transparency within Medicaid and CHIP program

CMS releases Medicaid scorecard

Patient Engagement

New research suggests it's time to teach baby boomers about patient portals

Time to teach older patients about portals

Pharmacy

What hospitals, payers, and pharma think about buying generic drugs from Intermountain's startup

Hospitals, payers like Intermountain's generic drug startup, pharma not so much

Population Health

Community HIEs outperform enterprise exchanges in savings and healthcare utilization, study finds

Study: Health information exchanges cut costs

Risk Management

LifeBridge Health reveals breach that compromised health data of 500,000 patients

Data of 500K patients compromised in LifeBridge Health breach

Telehealth

With physician shortage looming, hospitals turn to telehealth tools

How telehealth can address physician shortage

Mergers & Acquisitions

OptumHealth and Summit Partners to acquire staffing firm Sound Inpatient Physician Holdings for $2.2 billion

OptumHealth part of $2.2B deal to buy physician staffing firm

Top Stories

NYC H+H president discusses plan to turn public agency into profitable health system by 2020

NYC H+H president vows shift to primary care, slash budget gap by 2020

Medical practices turn to retail tactics to meet rising demand for consumerism

Consumerism's rise has practices adopting retail tactics

Social determinants shown to reduce healthcare spending

Social determinants can cut spending

PHI releases first direct-care workforce state data center

Oct 12, 2011 |

PHI releases first direct-care workforce state data center

The Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute (PHI), a national nonprofit working to improve America's ...

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Top 10 healthcare issues to watch in 2016

CMS cancels mandatory bundles, reduces joint model participation

Docs must now explain 'observational' statuses

List: 769 hospitals fined for medical errors, infections

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Once-failing hospitals say accountability, transparency key to surviving fallout from failing patient safety grades

Once-failing hospitals say accountability, transparency key to surviving fallout from failing patient safety grades When Leapfrog released their Spring 2016 patient safety grades recently, 15 hospitals got slapped with a very public 'F' grade casting a spotlight on them that no institution wants. ...

Analyze this: Health systems, health plans get to the core of big data

Analyze this: Health systems, health plans get to the core of big data Pamela Peele knows that people who subscribe to cooking magazines have a much higher risk of going to the emergency room. But how she knows that is a whole other story.

Healthcare mergers and acquisitions in 2016: Running list

Healthcare mergers and acquisitions in 2016: Running list While 2015 was a record-breaking year in healthcare mergers and acquisitions, 2016 saw more change as organizations across the industry adjust and adapt to the evolving financial landscape.

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