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Reimbursement
COVID-19 pandemic driving steep volume and revenue declines as margins suffer
Pandemic drives steep volume, revenue declines in April
Revenue Cycle Management
Hospitals begin road to recovery
Hospitals begin road to recovery
Strategic Planning
Insurers face uncertainty in setting 2021 premiums
Insurers face uncertainty in setting 2021 premiums
Capital Finance
Healthcare real estate remains attractive to investors despite COVID-19 pandemic
Healthcare real estate remains attractive to investors
Supply Chain
Advocate Aurora Health partners with Premier to ramp up domestic PPE production
Advocate Aurora, Premier partner on PPE
Accounting & Financial Management
Controlling labor costs can provide hospitals financial stability during pandemic
Controlling labor costs can provide COVID-19 stability
Budgeting
A dynamic healthcare budget process may trump traditional budgeting in terms of accuracy, flexibility
Benefits of a dynamic budgeting process
Quality and Safety
Cleveland Clinic teams with United Airlines on cleanliness standards
Cleveland Clinic teams with United Airlines on cleanliness standards
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
Humana is expediting claims processing and prior authorization during COVID-19 pandemic
Humana is expediting claims and prior authorization
Workforce
Primary care physicians pushed to breaking point as more than half report no payments
Half of PCPs report no payments, high stress
Operations
COVID-19 impact on hospitals worse than previously estimated
COVID-19 impact on hospitals worse than thought
Medical Devices
New standards will help advance medical device connectivity
New standards will help advance medical device connectivity
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
Blues plans sue CVS for allegedly inflating generic drug prices
Blues plans sue CVS over drug prices
Policy and Legislation
AHA sends letter to HHS requesting additional emergency funding
AHA requests more funding from HHS
Community Benefit
Cigna, New York Life create fund for grieving families
Cigna, New York Life create fund for grieving families
Accountable Care
HIMSSCast: How COVID-19 has accelerated healthcare trends, with MoneyBall Medicine's Harry Glorikian
HIMSSCast: How COVID-19 has accelerated healthcare trends
Acute Care
Stroke evaluations drop by nearly 40% during COVID-19 pandemic
Stroke evaluations drop 40% during pandemic
Ambulatory Care
Medical schools, teaching hospitals account for 3% of US GDP, report shows
Med schools, teaching hospitals are 3% of GDP
Analytics
Electronic health records fail to detect up to 33% of medication errors
EHRs don't detect 33% of medication errors
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 EHR program, renames it 'Promoting Interoperability'
CMS overhauls meaningful use as 'Promoting Interoperability'
Medicare & Medicaid
CMS to enforce nursing home safety through CARES Act funding
CMS to enforce nursing home safety through CARES Act funding
Patient Engagement
COVID-19 has accelerated adoption of non-contact patient monitoring technology, says Frost & Sullivan analysis
COVID-19 has accelerated adoption of non-contact patient monitoring technology, says Frost & Sullivan analysis
Pharmacy
HHS expands U.S.-based pharmaceutical manufacturing to get drugs to hospitals faster
HHS expands U.S-based pharmaceutical manufacturing
Population Health
Montefiore Health System using tech to scale population health management strategies
Montefiore is successfully scaling pop health strategies
Risk Management
Cybersecurity needs to be put in business terms
Cybersecurity needs to be put in business terms
Telehealth
Cigna is waiving copays, deductibles and coinsurance for primary, specialty and behavioral care
Cigna is waiving copays, deductibles and coinsurance
Mergers & Acquisitions
Four Chicago hospitals call off merger due to lack of state help, with service cuts predicted
4 Chicago hospitals call off merger plans
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