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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

What hospitals and health systems can do to recover financially from COVID-19

COVID-19: How hospitals can recover

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

HIMSSCast: The financial toll of COVID-19 for health systems

HIMSSCast: The financial toll of COVID-19

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

CareMount Medical uses telehealth now to avoid health crisis later

CareMount Medical uses telehealth now to avoid health crisis later

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

Court hears oral arguments in price transparency lawsuit

Court hears oral arguments in price transparency lawsuit

Policy and Legislation

The future of APIs first depends on building value for patient access

The future of APIs starts with building value for patient access

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

Deciding what to measure can make all the difference in patient experience, outcomes

Deciding what to measure can improve outcomes

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 announces pharma partnership to cap insulin copay at $35

CMS announces pharma partnership for $35 insulin copay

Patient Engagement

Most consumers have changed healthcare usage since COVID-19 pandemic, survey shows

COVID-19: Consumers are changing healthcare usage

Pharmacy

HHS expands U.S.-based pharmaceutical manufacturing to get drugs to hospitals faster

HHS expands U.S-based pharmaceutical manufacturing

Population Health

With more children showing severe COVID-19 symptoms, pediatricians outline critical steps

Critical steps for children with COVID-19

Risk Management

Cybersecurity needs to be put in business terms

Cybersecurity needs to be put in business terms

Telehealth

In final rule, CMS makes telehealth more widely available in Medicare Advantage plans

CMS makes telehealth more widely available in MA plans

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

Top Stories

Study finds racial bias in Optum algorithm

Study finds racial bias in Optum algorithm

UPDATED LIST: Medicare Advantage star ratings for 2020 show more 4 star or higher plans

UPDATED: List of 2020 Medicare Advantage star ratings

Reducing wasteful spending in healthcare by curbing administrative complexity

Curbing administrative complexity to slash waste

May 17, 2016

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