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Reimbursement

UnitedHealthcare to start covering medical implant for sleep apnea

UHC to start covering medical implant for sleep apnea

Revenue Cycle Management

Hospital CEOs focus on revenue growth over cost containment, according to new survey

CEOs are focused on revenue over cost

Strategic Planning

UnitedHealth Group names Dirk McMahon CEO of UnitedHealthcare

UnitedHealthcare's new CEO is Dirk McMahon

Capital Finance

Precision medicine: Barriers to investment

Supply Chain

Group purchasing organizations reduce supply costs by 13.1 percent

GPOs reduce supply costs by 13.1 percent

Accounting & Financial Management

Finding unconventional sources of capital in the face of revenue pressures

Finding hidden sources of capital

Budgeting

New clinical pathway for cancer patients leads to better outcomes, lower healthcare costs

New clinical pathway lowers healthcare costs

Quality and Safety

Quality standards framework can improve both clinical and financial performance in healthcare

How a healthcare quality workforce can better care, costs

Billing and Collections

Medical costs create hardships for more than half of Americans

Medical costs a hardship for most Americans

Claims Processing

BCBS Institute and Solera partner, pay SDoH organizations through outcomes-based medical claims

BCBS Institute, Solera, to pay organizations through outcomes-based claims

Workforce

Telemedicine is poised to grow as its popularity increases among physicians and patients

Telemedicine growing in popularity among physicians

Operations

Humana to integrate IntelligentRx into Epic's e-prescribing workflow

Medical Devices

Apple is developing custom health information tracking chips

Apple is developing custom health chips

Hospital/physician relations

Wording in medical student evaluations differ by gender, minority status, revealing potential bias

Gender, minority bias revealed in med student evals

Construction & Facilities Management

Kaiser Permanente plunking down $900 million on new Oakland headquarters

Kaiser Permanente building $900M HQ in Oakland

Compliance & Legal

Affordable Care Act heads to appeals court on Tuesday

ACA heads to appeals court on Tuesday

Policy and Legislation

FCC advances, seeks public comment on $100M rural telehealth pilot

Community Benefit

Kaiser Permanente commits $1.65 million to California wildfire relief efforts

Accountable Care

Addressing value-based care's data problem

Acute Care

University of Chicago Medicine study shows need to enhance patient rest, evaluate overnight interruptions for better patient experience

University of Chicago Medicine study shows how to help patients rest for improved experience

Ambulatory Care

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

Med schools, teaching hospitals are 3% of GDP

Analytics

Innovaccer research shows how AI could improve cost of care models

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 as 'Promoting Interoperability'

Medicare & Medicaid

The number of clinicians participating in advanced APMs increased

More clinicians are participating in advanced APMs

Patient Engagement

Clover Health's new subsidiary will rely on members, machine learning to fuel drug development

Pharmacy

Trump administration withdraws drug rebate rule

Population Health

Social determinants of health data can be difficult to collect and share, but it's imperative to success

SDOH data hard to share, but necessary

Risk Management

Hospital employees are clicking on phishing emails, and that's a problem, JAMA study shows

JAMA: Hospital employees are clicking on phishing emails

Telehealth

Telemedicine market expected to account for more than $38 billion by 2029

Telemedicine worth $38 billion by 2029

Mergers & Acquisitions

Aspirus buying Divine Savior in move that creates $1.4 billion health system

Aspirus to buy Divine Savior

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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.

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