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Reimbursement
Rural hospital closures having an impact on mortality rates
Rural hospital closures raising mortality rates
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
Employer medical benefit costs projected to nearly double the rate of inflation in 2020
Medical benefit costs could soon outpace inflation
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
Black, Hispanic patients more likely to be brought to safety-net hospital emergency rooms
Minorities more likely to head to safety net ERs
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
Kaiser Permanente workers planning strike that could be largest in more than two decades
Kaiser workers planning large strike
Operations
Insurtech entrepreneurs to lead panel at Health 2.0
Insurtech entrepreneurs to lead Health 2.0. panel
Medical Devices
Apple is developing custom health information tracking chips
Apple is developing custom health chips
Hospital/physician relations
Women in healthcare face more harassment, have fewer opportunities and lower wages, study shows
Women: Fewer opportunities, lower wages
Construction & Facilities Management
Cape Cod Healthcare building $180M patient tower, investing in EHR
CCHC building $180M patient tower
Compliance & Legal
OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, settles lawsuits
OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma files for bankruptcy
Policy and Legislation
Trump administration's public charge rule presents threat to health, scholars say
Trump's public charge rule: Threat to health?
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
How artificial intelligence can allow providers to get a better handle on social determinants of health data
How AI can harness SDOH data
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
Why aren't presidential candidates talking about value-based care?
Why aren't presidential candidates talking about value-based care?
Patient Engagement
Cutting operational costs while improving care quality requires leveraging technology to drive efficiencies
Cutting costs, boosting quality: Efficiency is the goal
Pharmacy
NimbleRx touts itself as first delivery service designed for independent and local pharmacies
NimbleRx offering pharmacy delivery
Population Health
Data from homeless emergency department patients finds multiple contributors to homelessness
ED data shows multiple contributors to homelessness
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
Federal court sides with CVS Health/Aetna on their merger
Federal court sides with CVS/Aetna
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