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Reimbursement

CMS: Innovative new payment models are coming -- and some will be mandatory

CMS: New innovative payment models coming

Revenue Cycle Management

Change Healthcare puts blockchain claims processing tech on Amazon Web Services

AWS, Change apply blockchain to claims processing

Strategic Planning

Hurricane Florence: Lessons from hospitals that survived recent natural disasters

As Hurricane Florence comes, lessons from other disasters

Capital Finance

Healthcare spending in the U.S. sends damaging ripple effect across other major sectors, households, Moody's report says

Healthcare spending could cripple major sectors of U.S. economy, Moody's report says

Supply Chain

Hospital supply chain leaders brace for Trump tariff threat impact

Accounting & Financial Management

Hospital profits in Massachusetts shriveling due to financial pressure

Massachusetts hospitals see profits shrinking

Budgeting

Sustainable cost control tops list of priorities for healthcare executives, Advisory Board study says

Advisory Board: Sustainable cost control is top priority for healthcare executives

Quality and Safety

Few health insurance plans rank highest or lowest in NCQA's plan ratings

Few insurance plans rank highest or lowest in NCQA ratings

Billing and Collections

More than half of Americans have been surprised by a medical bill, survey shows

57 percent of Americans have been surprised by medical bill

Claims Processing

Silver lining: Million dollar medical claims leap 87%

Workforce

Fatigue, scheduling, data all contributors to pervasive physician burnout epidemic

Physician burnout rooted in fatigue

Operations

Scribes ease physician administrative burden and boost patient experience, JAMA study says

JAMA: Scribes ease EHR workload and improve patient experience

Medical Devices

Apple is developing custom health information tracking chips

Apple is developing custom health chips

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

Here are the biggest hospital construction projects that kicked off in August

Biggest constructions projects of August

Compliance & Legal

American Hospital Association suing HHS over delay in implementing drug pricing rule for 340B

AHA, others, suing HHS over 340B delay

Policy and Legislation

HHS doles out more than $1 billion in grants to various HHS orgs to fight opioid epidemic

HHS doles out more than $1 billion in grants to fight opioid epidemic

Community Benefit

University Hospitals scores $200,000 award to broaden implementation of new technology to combat opioid abuse

University Hospitals scores $200K to expand anti-opioid abuse technology

Accountable Care

MSSP ACOs saved more money than CMS reported, says National Association of ACOs

MSSP ACOs saved more money than CMS reported, NAAACO says

Acute Care

Urgent care visits increase as emergency room visits fall, study finds

Urgent care visits rise, emergency room visits fall

Ambulatory Care

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

Med schools, teaching hospitals are 3% of GDP

Analytics

EHR investments slowing down

Business Intelligence

Andy Anderson takes reins of Combined Medical Group featuring two large New Jersey health systems

Anderson is new CEO of NJ's Combined Medical Group

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

CMS removes Medicare requirements identified as unnecessary, obsolete or excessively burdensome

CMS nixes "excessively burdensome" Medicare requirements

Patient Engagement

HIMSS outlines 4 ways to fight the opioid crisis

HIMSS: 4 ways to fight the opioid crisis

Pharmacy

PBMs lack transparency, experts say

Population Health

Provider workforce gap will only grow with 'Silver Tsunami'

Provider workforce gap will grow with 'Silver Tsunami'

Risk Management

Accountable care organizations: Time to make risk-adjustment more stable

ACOs to CMS: Time to stabilize risk-adjustment

Telehealth

CVS MinuteClinic rolls out telehealth app with Teladoc

Mergers & Acquisitions

DOJ wants Aetna, CVS Health to divest Part D plans before merger approval

Aetna, CVS Health need to divest Part D plans, DOJ says

Staff

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