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Reimbursement
More than half of rural hospitals could close under a public health option
Half of rural hospitals could close under public health option
Revenue Cycle Management
Healthcare revenue cycle management market projected to be worth $104 billion by 2025
Rev cycle market worth $104B by 2025
Strategic Planning
Close to one-third of healthcare employees have never received cybersecurity training, report shows
One-third of healthcare employees lack cybersecurity training
Capital Finance
U.S. spends more on healthcare, but not on social services spending, study finds
Higher social spending linked to higher healthcare spending
Supply Chain
Optimizing the total performance of a healthcare supply chain means data and clinical integration
Optimizing the total performance of the supply chain
Accounting & Financial Management
Charity care spending among California hospitals is plunging
CA hospitals: Charity care plunging
Budgeting
Health systems allocate just 5-10% of total spending on primary care, despite benefits
Public and private payers underinvest in primary care
Quality and Safety
Hospitals are demanding secure medical devices before they buy
Hospitals are demanding secure medical devices
Billing and Collections
AHIP supports a federal model of California law to end surprise billing
AHIP supports California law to end surprise billing
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
Up to 14% of internal medical residents have been bullied during training, Johns Hopkins found
14% of internal medicine residents have been bullied
Operations
Physicians looking to become small practice owners have many factors to consider before making the leap
What would-be physician practice owners should consider
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
Cape Cod Healthcare building $180M patient tower, investing in EHR
CCHC building $180M patient tower
Compliance & Legal
Centene, Aetna protest losing Louisiana MCO contracts worth billions
Centene, Aetna protest losing Louisiana MCO contracts worth billions
Policy and Legislation
HHS proposes substance use disorder regulatory reforms to increase sharing of information
HHS proposes substance use disorder regulatory reforms
Community Benefit
Kaiser Permanente commits $1.65 million to California wildfire relief efforts
Kaiser Permanente commits $1.65 million to California wildfire relief efforts
Accountable Care
Rural hospitals not using bundled payment models, data shows
Rural hospitals not using bundled payment models
Acute Care
Diverting avoidable emergency department visits could save healthcare $32 billion annually
Diverting avoidable ED visits could save $32B
Ambulatory Care
Medical schools, teaching hospitals account for 3% of US GDP, report shows
Med schools, teaching hospitals are 3% of GDP
Analytics
Healthcare cloud computing growth due in part to curbing infrastructure costs
Curbing infrastructure costs fuels cloud growth
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
Kidney transplants covered by Medicaid increased in states after Medicaid expansion
Medicaid-covered kidney transplants rise with expansion
Patient Engagement
Most patients willing to share medical records for research purposes
Most are willing to share medical records for research
Pharmacy
Drug price forecast projects 4.5 percent increase in hospital drug spending for 2020
4.5% increase predicted for hospital drug spending
Population Health
IPA, insurer launch innovative new partnership to manage social determinants of health
IPA, insurer launch innovative new partnership to manage social determinants of 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
Use of non-hospital-based provider-to-patient telehealth grew nearly 1,400%
Non-hospital-based telehealth grew 1,400%
Mergers & Acquisitions
Signify Health, Remedy Partners signify intent to merge
Signify, Remedy to merge
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Capital Finance

Aug 23 | Jeff Lagasse
Signify Health, Remedy Partners signify intent to merge
This comes amidst a market shift from fee-for-service toward value-based payments based on quality.
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Cape Hod Healthcare in Hyannis, MA (Google Earth)
Aug 19 | Jeff Lagasse
Cape Cod Healthcare building $180M patient tower, investing in EHR
Infrastructure work on the tower will likely begin next month, with completion predicted to take place during the spring of…
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Aug 19 | Jeff Lagasse
Drug price forecast projects 4.5 percent increase in hospital drug spending for 2020
Pharmaceutical costs are already a large share of most health organizations' budgets and this…
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Aug 15 | Jeff Lagasse
U.S. spends more on healthcare, but not on social services spending, study finds
Countries that spent more on social services tended to spend more on healthcare, even after adjusting for…
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Aug 13 | Jeff Lagasse
Hospital price increases for inpatient services will cost consumers and employers $250B over next decade
Between 2013 and 2017, hospital prices for inpatient services increased 19%,…
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UnitedHealth Group headquarters in Minnetonka, MN (Google Earth)
Jul 29 | Jeff Lagasse
Volume and value of healthcare mergers and acquisitions increase during second quarter
Despite the robust quarter, none of the transactions were considered "mega-deals," valued at…
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Atrium headquarters in Charlotte, NC (Google Earth)
Jul 18 | Jeff Lagasse
More mega-mergers in Q2 drive healthcare mergers and acquisitions activity to near-historic levels
Total transacted revenue, $11.3 billion, was above the norm for a single quarter and nearly…
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Jul 16 | Jeff Lagasse
Anne Arundel Health System's acquisition of Doctors Community Health System finalized
While full integration is expected to take a couple of years, a name for the new health system will be…
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Aspirus headquarters in Wausau, Wisconsin.
Jul 11 | Jeff Lagasse
Aspirus buying Divine Savior in move that creates $1.4 billion health system
The nonprofit Aspirus will expand its network, which now includes almost 60 clinics, as the deal looks to close…
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Jun 18 | Jeff Lagasse
Kaiser Permanente plunking down $900 million on new Oakland headquarters
Officials say the new building will reduce operational costs by more than $60 million annually and support affordable…
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