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Reimbursement

CMS relents, opens up smartphone-connected CGMs for reimbursement

Revenue Cycle Management

Hospital executives say Affordable Care Act insurance reforms driving up bad debt

Hospital execs: ACA driving up bad debt

Strategic Planning

It's not just primary care physicians that are in demand, specialists are quickly becoming a commodity

Why providers should focus on both specialists and primary care

Capital Finance

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

Supply Chain

Expert tips for finding big savings in hospital supply chain

Accounting & Financial Management

What hospitals in financial distress should do now to avoid closing down

Remedies for hospitals in distress

Budgeting

Costly physician performance metrics have serious flaws, study finds

Performance metrics: Costly and potentially flawed

Quality and Safety

Hospital-acquired infections keep rising, wasting billions, finds Leapfrog

Hospital-acquired infections on the rise

Billing and Collections

Automating claims would save healthcare more than $11 billion annually

Automated claims could save $11B

Claims Processing

How to manage MVA and workers' compensation claims successfully

Workforce

Atul Gawande to lead Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase venture

Operations

9 in 10 hospitals have big IT plans in year ahead, half say insufficient funding is a concern

Nearly all health orgs advancing tech initiatives

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

New hospital construction, expansion projects

Compliance & Legal

More doctors indicted in 15-year-long $580 million kickback scheme at Pacific Hospital of Long Beach

Doctors indicted in 15-year $580M kickback scheme

Policy and Legislation

American Medical Association blasts Trump Administration's

AMA to Trump: End zero tolerance policy now

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

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

Consumers are happy with Medicare and Medicaid but wary of Amazon, CVS and Walmart as health insurers

Consumers like Medicare and Medicaid, wary of Amazon, CVS, Walmart

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

Michigan's Medicaid expansion a boon to primary care providers

Michigan Medicaid expansion showing results

Patient Engagement

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

Time to teach older patients about portals

Pharmacy

Pharmaceutical companies should focus on medication adherence to improve revenue

How pharma can boost revenue through adherence

Population Health

A new breed of Medicaid innovators rises to tackle social determinants of health

Medicaid innovators tackle social determinants

Risk Management

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

Data of 500K patients compromised in LifeBridge Health breach

Telehealth

How telehealth can address physician shortage

Mergers & Acquisitions

American Medical Association says CVS Health, Aetna merger would hinder competition in many markets

AMA comes out against CVS Health, Aetna merger

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Debunk the Myth: Outsourcing Doesn't Mean Losing Control With shifts in payer mixes and reimbursement structure, the margin of reimbursement has been shrinking steadily over the last five years. How do revenue cycle leaders navigate payment reform while maintaining stable business office operations?

Beyond Dollars and Cents: A Closer Look At Value Beyond the expected improvement in specific metrics, many organizations that outsource RCM with a trusted and certified partner are seeing several ancillary benefits of such agreements.

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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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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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Clinical Quality Measures 101 Although quality-reporting programs such as meaningful use provide incentives to help providers implement and use electronic health records (EHRs) to collect and report on clinical data, practices often need help deciding what data to collect, which measures to report ...

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