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Reimbursement

Home health group rips slash to reimbursement rates

Revenue Cycle Management

St. Luke's revenue cycle benefits by offering patients a discounted price for paying upfront

St. Luke's benefits by offering discounted, upfront payments

Strategic Planning

Amazon health venture Haven hires Dr. Sandhya Rao from Partners as VP of Clinical Strategy

Amazon's Haven makes another strategic hire

Capital Finance

Hospitals improve financial performance, but volumes are slipping

Report: Hospital volumes are slipping

Supply Chain

98% say supply chain optimization boosts margins

Accounting & Financial Management

Community Health Systems sees major drop in net losses over 2017, reporting $328 million for Q4 2018

CHS reports major drop in net losses for Q4 2018

Budgeting

High healthcare use linked with lower prices

Quality and Safety

Could consumerism hurt the healthcare system and undermine patient-centric care?

Consumerism: Could it undermine patient-centric care?

Billing and Collections

Insurers, providers spar over solution to surprise medical bills

Insurers, providers spar over surprise medical bills

Claims Processing

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

Change, TIBCO build smart contract system for payers

Workforce

New York City nurses threaten strike over staffing, working conditions at Montefiore, Mount Sinai, New York Presbyterian

NYC nurses from 3 systems threaten major strike

Operations

How Medicare Advantage steers the Silver Tsunami into coordinated, value-based care

Medicare Advantage steers Silver Tsunami into value-based care

Medical Devices

Apple is developing custom health information tracking chips

Apple is developing custom health chips

Hospital/physician relations

Gender pay gap for physicians is narrowing

Construction & Facilities Management

Northwell Health, NYC Health + Hospitals open new $47.7 million joint lab to help hospitals focus on emergency testing, cut costs

Northwell Health, NYC Health + Hospitals open new $47.7M joint lab

Compliance & Legal

CHI Franciscan, Washington state settle suit over alleged antitrust violations

Policy and Legislation

House Democrats unveil Affordable Care Act stabilization bill

Dems unveil ACA stabilization bill

Community Benefit

Kaiser Permanente commits $1.65 million to California wildfire relief efforts

Accountable Care

BPCI Advanced down to 1,295 providers as 252 drop out

BPCI Advanced loses 252 providers

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

Using zip codes to find at-risk patients

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

Efficient hospitals operate on -2% margins in Medicare payments, MedPAC reports

Hospitals lose money on Medicare payments, MedPAC reports

Patient Engagement

How the 'A' in 'AI' can stand for 'Assistive,' and what that means for providers and patients

Should 'AI' stand for 'Assistive Technology?'

Pharmacy

High price of drugs is biggest issue in prescription adherence, physicians say

High drug prices are a big issue in adherence

Population Health

CMMI model helped states with pop health

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

Retaining humanity in telehealth

Mergers & Acquisitions

Medical University of South Carolina completes acquisition of 4 hospitals from Community Health Systems

MUSC completes $176M acquisition of 4 CHS hospitals

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