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Reimbursement

CMS to pay hospitals millions in site neutral payments for 2019

Hospitals to get millions in back payments for site neutral cuts

Revenue Cycle Management

Referral process going digital as healthcare providers look to stem revenue leakage

Referral processes going digital

Strategic Planning

Too many providers are failing to meaningfully integrate data analytics

Capital Finance

Investment in medical and health R&D not keeping up with needs of nation, report finds

Healthcare R&D investments lag disease burden

Supply Chain

Reducing medical device life cycle costs

Accounting & Financial Management

Healthcare paperwork cost U.S. $812 billion in 2017, 4 times more per capita than Canada

Paperwork cost U.S. $812B in 2017

Budgeting

Children frequently receive unnecessary medical care regardless of insurance type

Children get unnecessary care despite insurance type

Quality and Safety

Significant underreporting in safety data found on Nursing Home Compare website

Underreporting of safety data found on Nursing Home Compare

Billing and Collections

Tacking surprise billing could reduce healthcare spending by $40 billion

Surprise billing: A $40B problem

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

Kate Goodrich, CMO for CMS, is leaving job for Humana

Kate Goodrich, CMO for CMS, is leaving for Humana

Operations

Study sheds light on executive pay in healthcare

Medical Devices

Apple is developing custom health information tracking chips

Apple is developing custom health chips

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

Cape Cod Healthcare building $180M patient tower, investing in EHR

CCHC building $180M patient tower

Compliance & Legal

Of $3 billion DOJ recovered in fraud, $2.6 billion attributable to healthcare

Of $3B DOJ recovered in fraud, $2.6B attributable to healthcare

Policy and Legislation

Chief Data Officer Mona Siddiqui to depart HHS

Community Benefit

Advocate Aurora Health contributed $2.1 billion to community charitable care and services in 2018

Advocate Aurora: $2.1B in charity care

Accountable Care

ACOs in the MSSP model head into future risk

ACOs and the MSSP model head into 2020

Acute Care

Pressure ulcers cost the health system $26.8 billion a year

Pressure ulcers cost the health system $26.8B a year

Ambulatory Care

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

Med schools, teaching hospitals are 3% of GDP

Analytics

Anthem, MassChallenge HealthTech to collaborate on accelerator launch

Anthem, MassChallenge HealthTech launching accelerator

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

340B found to have minimal effect on pricing, countering notion that it's a driver of healthcare spending

340B: Minimal effect on pricing?

Patient Engagement

Older adults use online physician ratings, but view them cautiously, poll shows

Older adults are cautious about online doc reviews

Pharmacy

Fewer than half of California pharmacies provide correct drug disposal info

Most CA pharmacies give wrong drug disposal info

Population Health

KLAS report evaluates value-based care vendors

KLAS evaluates value-based care vendors

Risk Management

Cybersecurity needs to be put in business terms

Telehealth

Roper St. Francis Healthcare launches multi-hospital tele-ICU initiative with Advanced ICU Care

Roper St. Francis launches multi-hospital tele-ICU initiative

Mergers & Acquisitions

Mergers slowed in 2018 as hospitals turn to deals more strategic than financial in nature

Hospital mergers slowed in 2018

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