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Reimbursement

Aligning stakeholders' incentives in the shift to value-driven health

Revenue Cycle Management

Providers aren't talking to patients about costs and it's affecting patient satisfaction, VisitPay study shows

Providers aren't talking to patients about costs and it's bad for patient satisfaction

Strategic Planning

Ascension Healthcare CEO Pat Maryland, two other key executives, are leaving health system

Three key executives set to depart Ascension

Capital Finance

Massachusetts General Hospital receives record $50 million gift to fund capital projects

Massachusetts General Hospital secures $50M gift

Supply Chain

Why centralizing supply chain can save money in the long run

Accounting & Financial Management

Growth in hospital prices outpaces that of physicians by nearly 20 percent, Health Affairs shows

Hospital price growth outpaces that of physicians

Budgeting

Orthopedic surgery spending increased 44 percent since 2010

Orthopedic spending up 44 percent

Quality and Safety

Artificial intelligence can identify at-risk patients, inform care and improve disease prevention

How AI can identify at-risk patients, inform care, improve disease prevention

Billing and Collections

Billing and payment tech becoming more responsive, survey finds

Responsive billing methods coming to the fore

Claims Processing

Change, TIBCO use blockchain to build smart contract system for payers

Change, TIBCO build smart contract system for payers

Workforce

Healthcare gains 42,000 jobs in January, led by ambulatory services

Healthcare adds 42,000 jobs in January

Operations

Healthcare has so much data but we're 'probing in the dark,' expert says

Medical Devices

Apple is developing custom health information tracking chips

Apple is developing custom health chips

Hospital/physician relations

Physicians employed by hospitals and corporations more dissatisfied than independent doctors

Hospital-employed physicians less satisfied, burnout prevalent

Construction & Facilities Management

Northwell Health, NYC Health + Hospitals open new $47.7 million joint lab to help hospitals focus on emergency testing, cut costs

Northwell Health, NYC Health + Hospitals open new $47.7M joint lab

Compliance & Legal

Aetna to pay $935,000 in settlement with California in envelope data breach case

Policy and Legislation

HHS unwraps long-awaited new information blocking rule

Community Benefit

Kaiser Permanente commits $1.65 million to California wildfire relief efforts

Accountable Care

Seema Verma lays out plan for 'digital data revolution'

Acute Care

University of Chicago Medicine study shows need to enhance patient rest, evaluate overnight interruptions for better patient experience

University of Chicago Medicine study shows how to help patients rest for improved experience

Ambulatory Care

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

Med schools, teaching hospitals are 3% of GDP

Analytics

Information sharing, widespread collaboration on education, outcome vigilance can help curb the opioid crisis

How payers and providers can share info, combat opioid crisis

Business Intelligence

Aetna, Anthem, Health Care Service Corporation, PNC Bank and IBM announce blockchain network

Aetna, Anthem, HCSC, PNC Bank and IBM announce blockchain network

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

Medicare rules increase out-of-pocket costs of multiple sclerosis drugs

Medicare rules increase MS drug costs

Patient Engagement

How poor provider communication can result in negative Yelp reviews

Poor communication can hurt Yelp reviews

Pharmacy

Sharing of real world data, getting patients involved, is needed for better pharma collaborations

Sharing of real world data is needed for collaboration

Population Health

Spending money on the social determinants is an investment

Risk Management

Do your CEO and CFO underinvest in cybersecurity? Here's why and what to do about it

Why CEOs and CFOs don't invest as much in cybersecurity as they should

Telehealth

Ambulance payment model will allow on-site treatment, telehealth

Mergers & Acquisitions

Baylor, Scott & White Health, Memorial Hermann call off merger

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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. ...

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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Gaining Actionable Insight into Financial Systems and Areas Impacting the Revenue Cycle Hospital systems across the country are looking to streamline their billing and collection processes to become more efficient and better compete in their markets. The challenge many face is how to turn the data ...

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