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Reimbursement

Physicians adverse to the financial risk of payment models that penalize for cost overruns

Physicians adverse to financial risk in payment models

Revenue Cycle Management

How St. Luke's created a patient-centric revenue cycle to improve satisfaction and collections

How St. Luke's created a patient-centric rev cycle

Strategic Planning

Why branding in healthcare is more important than ever, and how to connect with consumers

Branding more important than ever in healthcare

Capital Finance

Healthcare will spend the most on R&D of any industry by 2020, says PwC

Healthcare R&D spending is on the rise

Supply Chain

Hospitals spend $25B more than they should on supply chain

Accounting & Financial Management

Healthcare cost variations between regions attributed to price, usage

Price, usage lead to regional cost variation

Budgeting

Hospitals in one rural system have negative operating margins of $100 million a year, CEO says

Rural hospitals lose $100M a year, CEO says

Quality and Safety

Geisinger unveils ProvenRecovery program for surgery patients

Billing and Collections

Technology key to curbing rate of claims denials for hospitals, health systems

Tech is key for curbing denials

Claims Processing

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

Change, TIBCO build smart contract system for payers

Workforce

How nurses rate daily job difficulty plays key role in patient care

Nurses' job difficulty plays role in patient care

Operations

Artificial Intelligence ROI is coming sooner than you think

AI to yield ROI within 4 years, Optum says

Medical Devices

Apple is developing custom health information tracking chips

Apple is developing custom health chips

Hospital/physician relations

How hospitals can keep doctors positively engaged with their work

Keeping doctors positively engaged

Construction & Facilities Management

Mayo Clinic leads among the biggest hospital construction projects that kicked off in September

9 big healthcare construction projects that kicked off in September

Compliance & Legal

Department of Justice, Atrium Health settle civil suit over alleged anti-competitive steering restrictions

DOJ, Atrium settle civil suit over alleged steering practices

Policy and Legislation

Health and Human Services issues rule to deny contraception coverage based on religious, moral grounds

HHS finalizes rule to deny birth control based on religious, moral grounds

Community Benefit

Opioid abuse treatment buprenorphine integrated into New York City Health + Hospitals primary care clinics

NYC H+H integrates opioid abuse treatment into primary care clinics

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

Hospital CIOs report lack of confidence about their financial data

Many CIOs lack confidence in financial data

Business Intelligence

6 deep-dive symposiums at HIMSS Global Conference

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

HHS Secretary Alex Azar declares wildfires a public health emergency

Patient Engagement

Do your clinicians understand patient engagement?

Pharmacy

Nearly half of consumers have abandoned a costly prescription

Population Health

Health costs of ageism calculated at $63 billion annually, study finds

Health costs of ageism: $63 billion annually

Risk Management

(UPDATED)Camp Fire in Northern California damages Adventist Health Feather River Hospital, patients evacuated

(UPDATED)Camp wildfire damages hospital, patients evacuated

Telehealth

Why telehealth should focus on pop health

Mergers & Acquisitions

California approves CVS, Aetna merger

Staff

Healthcare Finance News Editorial

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Gus Venditto, VP Content and Product Development

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Hospital execs' salaries outpace physician pay

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