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Reimbursement

More than half of rural hospitals could close under a public health option

Half of rural hospitals could close under public health option

Revenue Cycle Management

Rev cycle market worth $104B by 2025

Strategic Planning

Close to one-third of healthcare employees have never received cybersecurity training, report shows

One-third of healthcare employees lack cybersecurity training

Capital Finance

U.S. spends more on healthcare, but not on social services spending, study finds

Higher social spending linked to higher healthcare spending

Supply Chain

Optimizing the total performance of the supply chain

Accounting & Financial Management

Charity care spending among California hospitals is plunging

CA hospitals: Charity care plunging

Budgeting

Health systems allocate just 5-10% of total spending on primary care, despite benefits

Public and private payers underinvest in primary care

Quality and Safety

Hospitals are demanding secure medical devices

Billing and Collections

AHIP supports a federal model of California law to end surprise billing

AHIP supports California law to end surprise billing

Claims Processing

BCBS Institute and Solera partner, pay SDoH organizations through outcomes-based medical claims

BCBS Institute, Solera, to pay organizations through outcomes-based claims

Workforce

Up to 14% of internal medical residents have been bullied during training, Johns Hopkins found

14% of internal medicine residents have been bullied

Operations

Physicians looking to become small practice owners have many factors to consider before making the leap

What would-be physician practice owners should consider

Medical Devices

Apple is developing custom health information tracking chips

Apple is developing custom health chips

Hospital/physician relations

Wording in medical student evaluations differ by gender, minority status, revealing potential bias

Gender, minority bias revealed in med student evals

Construction & Facilities Management

Cape Cod Healthcare building $180M patient tower, investing in EHR

CCHC building $180M patient tower

Compliance & Legal

Centene, Aetna protest losing Louisiana MCO contracts worth billions

Policy and Legislation

HHS proposes substance use disorder regulatory reforms

Community Benefit

Kaiser Permanente commits $1.65 million to California wildfire relief efforts

Accountable Care

Rural hospitals not using bundled payment models

Acute Care

Diverting avoidable emergency department visits could save healthcare $32 billion annually

Diverting avoidable ED visits could save $32B

Ambulatory Care

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

Med schools, teaching hospitals are 3% of GDP

Analytics

Healthcare cloud computing growth due in part to curbing infrastructure costs

Curbing infrastructure costs fuels cloud growth

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

Kidney transplants covered by Medicaid increased in states after Medicaid expansion

Medicaid-covered kidney transplants rise with expansion

Patient Engagement

Most patients willing to share medical records for research purposes

Most are willing to share medical records for research

Pharmacy

Drug price forecast projects 4.5 percent increase in hospital drug spending for 2020

4.5% increase predicted for hospital drug spending

Population Health

IPA, insurer launch innovative new partnership to manage social determinants of health

Risk Management

Hospital employees are clicking on phishing emails, and that's a problem, JAMA study shows

JAMA: Hospital employees are clicking on phishing emails

Telehealth

Non-hospital-based telehealth grew 1,400%

Mergers & Acquisitions

Signify Health, Remedy Partners signify intent to merge

Signify, Remedy to merge

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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.

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. ...

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