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Reimbursement

Trinity Heath anticipates $2 billion in losses and further layoffs as COVID-19 continues

Trinity Health is expecting $2B in losses

Revenue Cycle Management

Healthcare CFOs look to technology and automation for COVID-19 recovery

CFOs look to tech for COVID-19 recovery

Strategic Planning

Health Partners adds Children's Hospital of Pennsylvania to network

Health Plan Partners adds Children's Hospital of Pennsylvania

Capital Finance

Healthcare real estate remains attractive to investors

Supply Chain

National stockpiling standards are needed to address product shortages, Premier says

Premier: National stockpiling standards are needed

Accounting & Financial Management

Credit downgrades aren't attributable to COVID-19, but cash flow will be a challenge

COVID-19 is not causing credit downgrades

Budgeting

Benefits of a dynamic budgeting process

Quality and Safety

Mayo Clinic announces advanced care at home

Billing and Collections

Blue Shield of California is offering providers up to $200 million during COVID-19 crisis

Blue Shield of California offers providers $200M

Claims Processing

Epic connects with HCSC on payer data exchange platform

Workforce

Behavioral health is an overlooked need for healthcare workers during COVID-19

Health workers need behavioral health during pandemic

Operations

Bright Health Plan to expand into new markets in 2021

Bright Health Plan to expand in 2021

Medical Devices

Report says Abbott's FreeStyle Libre 14 day system cuts diabetes management costs

Hospital/physician relations

Quality of initial training makes a big difference in EHR satisfaction, KLAS report finds

Poor EHR training brings down provider satisfaction

Construction & Facilities Management

Kaiser Permanente cancels plans for $900 million headquarters in Oakland

Kaiser Permanente cancels $900M headquarters

Compliance & Legal

Ten indicted in $1.4B multi-state hospital testing fraud scheme

Policy and Legislation

Trump administration asks Supreme Court to end ACA as COVID-19 cases rise

Trump asks Supreme Court to end ACA

Community Benefit

Parkview Medical Center is leveraging community partnerships to tackle SDOH

Program at Parkview is tackling SDOH

Accountable Care

Blue Shield California's Health Reimagined ties provider pay to quality and patient satisfaction

Blue Shield California pilot includes value-based reimbursement

Acute Care

New Orleans hospital provides microcosm of COVID-19's effects on ED volumes

New Orleans hospitals shows coronavirus effects on ED

Ambulatory Care

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

Med schools, teaching hospitals are 3% of GDP

Analytics

Colorado HIEs have improved outcomes, costs for jails via speedy information access

HIEs in Colorado have lowered costs for inmate care

Business Intelligence

While the price of healthcare is growing, utilization is dropping and price variations persist, report says

HCCI: Price of healthcare is growing, utilization is dropping, price variations persist

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 as 'Promoting Interoperability'

Medicare & Medicaid

HHS has reduced backlog of Medicare appeals by almost half

HHS has reduced Medicare appeals by 43%

Patient Engagement

Loneliness is an issue for COVID-19 patients that tech alone can't solve

Pharmacy

Compounded drug market needs transparency

Population Health

In an open letter, Chicago hospitals called systemic racism a public health crisis

Chicago hospitals call out racism

Risk Management

Cybersecurity needs to be put in business terms

Telehealth

Telehealth is especially important for rural hospitals

Mergers & Acquisitions

Healthcare mergers and acquisitions are down, but not as much as anticipated

M&A is down, but not as much as expected

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