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Reimbursement
COVID-19 pandemic driving steep volume and revenue declines as margins suffer
Pandemic drives steep volume, revenue declines in April
Revenue Cycle Management
Hospitals begin road to recovery
Hospitals begin road to recovery
Strategic Planning
Insurers face uncertainty in setting 2021 premiums
Insurers face uncertainty in setting 2021 premiums
Capital Finance
Healthcare real estate remains attractive to investors despite COVID-19 pandemic
Healthcare real estate remains attractive to investors
Supply Chain
Advocate Aurora Health partners with Premier to ramp up domestic PPE production
Advocate Aurora, Premier partner on PPE
Accounting & Financial Management
HIMSSCast: The financial toll of COVID-19 for health systems
HIMSSCast: The financial toll of COVID-19
Budgeting
A dynamic healthcare budget process may trump traditional budgeting in terms of accuracy, flexibility
Benefits of a dynamic budgeting process
Quality and Safety
Cleveland Clinic teams with United Airlines on cleanliness standards
Cleveland Clinic teams with United Airlines on cleanliness standards
Billing and Collections
Blue Shield of California is offering providers up to $200 million during COVID-19 crisis
Blue Shield of California offers providers $200M
Claims Processing
Humana is expediting claims processing and prior authorization during COVID-19 pandemic
Humana is expediting claims and prior authorization
Workforce
Primary care physicians pushed to breaking point as more than half report no payments
Half of PCPs report no payments, high stress
Operations
Insurers are refunding surplus revenues now, rather than later
Insurers are refunding surplus revenues
Medical Devices
New standards will help advance medical device connectivity
New standards will help advance medical device connectivity
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
Kaiser Permanente cancels plans for $900 million headquarters in Oakland
Kaiser Permanente cancels $900M headquarters
Compliance & Legal
Court hears oral arguments in price transparency lawsuit
Court hears oral arguments in price transparency lawsuit
Policy and Legislation
Three ways providers get HIPAA right of access wrong
Three ways providers get HIPAA right of access wrong
Community Benefit
Cigna, New York Life create fund for grieving families
Cigna, New York Life create fund for grieving families
Accountable Care
HIMSSCast: How COVID-19 has accelerated healthcare trends, with MoneyBall Medicine's Harry Glorikian
HIMSSCast: How COVID-19 has accelerated healthcare trends
Acute Care
Stroke evaluations drop by nearly 40% during COVID-19 pandemic
Stroke evaluations drop 40% during pandemic
Ambulatory Care
Medical schools, teaching hospitals account for 3% of US GDP, report shows
Med schools, teaching hospitals are 3% of GDP
Analytics
Deciding what to measure can make all the difference in patient experience, outcomes
Deciding what to measure can improve outcomes
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
CMS announces pharma partnership to cap insulin copay at $35
CMS announces pharma partnership for $35 insulin copay
Patient Engagement
More than half of patients feel somewhat safe about returning for elective procedures
Most patients are still wary of elective procedures
Pharmacy
HHS expands U.S.-based pharmaceutical manufacturing to get drugs to hospitals faster
HHS expands U.S-based pharmaceutical manufacturing
Population Health
Montefiore Health System using tech to scale population health management strategies
Montefiore is successfully scaling pop health strategies
Risk Management
Cybersecurity needs to be put in business terms
Cybersecurity needs to be put in business terms
Telehealth
Community Care Cooperative launches $5 million campaign to boost telehealth
C3 lanches $5M telehealth campaign in telehealth
Mergers & Acquisitions
Four Chicago hospitals call off merger due to lack of state help, with service cuts predicted
4 Chicago hospitals call off merger plans
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