Topics
Reimbursement
Senators urge action on physician payment cut before end of lame duck session
Senators urge action on physician payment cut
Revenue Cycle Management
Trends 2025: The demand for interim revenue cycle executives
Trends 2025: The demand for interim revenue cycle executives
Strategic Planning
Advocate spending $1 billion on new hospital and outpatient services
Advocate spending $1B on new hospital and outpatient services
Capital Finance
Cigna nixes speculation of a Humana merger
Cigna nixes speculation of a Humana merger
Supply Chain
Feds shore up healthcare supply chain in wake of hurricanes Helene and Milton
Feds shore up supply chain in wake of hurricanes
Accounting & Financial Management
Healthcare expenditures rise on increased coverage and utilization
Healthcare expenditures rise on increased coverage and utilization
Budgeting
Health system operating margins declined in August
Health system operating margins declined in August
Quality and Safety
American Heart Association launching HCM initiative
American Heart Association launching HCM initiative
Billing and Collections
CFPB warns of illegal tactics by medical debt collectors
CFPB warns of illegal tactics by medical debt collectors
Claims Processing
Denials top reason for eroding provider-payer relationship
Denials top reason for eroding provider-payer relationship
Workforce
Male physicians have more net worth than female counterparts
Male physicians have more net worth than females
Operations
WashU Medicine to make neurosurgery inroads with philanthropic gift
WashU Medicine to improve neurosurgery with $50M gift
Medical Devices
Healthcare chatbots may promote racist misinformation
Healthcare chatbots may promote racist misinformation
Hospital/physician relations
Hospitals, physicians submit opposing views to FTC ruling on noncompetes
Hospitals, physicians submit opposing views to FTC ruling
Construction & Facilities Management
Children's Medical expands with new patient tower
Children's Medical expands with new patient tower
Compliance & Legal
Nebraska sues Change Healthcare over ransomware attack
Nebraska sues Change over ransomware attack
Policy and Legislation
Telehealth gets short extension, physician pay is cut in spending bill
Telehealth gets short extension, physician pay is cut in spending bill
Community Benefit
AMA pushes for stricter standards for hospital charity care policies
AMA pushes for stricter standards for hospital charity care policies
Accountable Care
NAACOS pushes ACO REACH extension after $1.54B in savings
NAACOS pushes ACO REACH extension
Acute Care
SDOH, tech key to advancing value-based care, says UHG
SDOH, tech key to advancing value-based care
Ambulatory Care
Cleveland Clinic and Amazon One Medical collaborate on primary care clinics
Cleveland Clinic and Amazon One Medical collaborate
Analytics
Interoperability in healthcare moving forward despite challenges
Interoperability in healthcare moving forward despite challenges
Business Intelligence
HIMSSCast: Research as restorative physician medicine
HIMSSCast: Research as restorative physician medicine
ICD-10 & Coding
Physician practices examine risk adjustment coding in wake of federal lawsuits
Practices keeping close watch on risk adjustment coding
Meaningful Use
Financial disincentives for providers who commit information blocking 
Financial disincentives for providers who commit information blocking 
Medicare & Medicaid
Medicare enrollees to pay less for 64 additional drugs
Medicare enrollees to pay less for 64 additional drugs
Patient Engagement
HHS, Illinois reach agreement on disability rights laws
HHS, Illinois reach agreement on disability rights
Pharmacy
Senate bill proposes to rein in PBMs by forcing them to sell pharmacy businesses
Senate bill proposes to rein in PBMs
Population Health
Weight loss drugs can save patients and healthcare dollars
Weight loss drugs can save patients and healthcare dollars
Risk Management
UPMC for You partners to offer Medicaid redetermination coverage in laundromats
UPMC for You offers Medicaid redetermination coverage in laundromats
Telehealth
Trends 2025: Telehealth's future faces a Friday deadline
Trends 2025: Telehealth's future faces a Friday deadline
Mergers & Acquisitions
Addus Homecare buttons up $350 million Gentiva acquisition
Addus Homecare buttons up $350M Gentiva acquisition
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Continuing medical education

Lung scan on a tablet. Photo: Prapass Pulsub/Getty Images
Feb 10, 2022 | Susan Morse
CMS expands coverage of lung cancer screening with low dose computed tomography
The screening, aimed at early detection of non-small cell lung cancer, will help improve health outcomes.  
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A vaccine being administered
Apr 30, 2021 | Jeff Lagasse
Ending racism in healthcare often begins with medical education - and is the target of a new national project
Inequities can be found in every facet of the industry, but targeting medical…
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Health subcommittee to take up legislation to combat opioid epidemic
Feb 26, 2018 | Susan Morse
Health subcommittee to take up legislation to help providers, pharmacists, combat opioid epidemic
Three upcoming hearings will focus on controlling opioid misuse, public health and…
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Oct 05, 2016 | Beth Jones Sanborn
AMA unveils MACRA tools for understanding how law may affect payments
All three tools can be accessed through the AMA website, and require only a login to site, not AMA membership.
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Aug 30, 2016 | Jeff Lagasse
Emory Healthcare, Stratus strike partnership
Atlanta-based Emory Healthcare and Stratus Healthcare, an affiliation of 21 Georgia hospitals, have struck a new partnership to develop a…
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Aug 15, 2016 | Kaiser Health News
Doctors struggle with knowledge gap with medical marijuana laws
As the number of states allowing medical marijuana grows -- the total has reached 25 plus the District of Columbia -- some are…
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DHHS building
Dec 30, 2014 | Debra A. McCurdy
HHS Inspector General assesses new healthcare fraud alert topics
This week the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) published its annual solicitation of recommendations for new or modified…
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Dec 18, 2013 | Charles Ornstein, ProPublica
GlaxoSmithKline to quit paying doctors for promotional talks
In a major departure from industry practice, GlaxoSmithKline, the sixth-largest global drug maker, announced Tuesday that it will…
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Aug 08, 2012 | Larry McClain
Physician leadership essential for integrated community health
David Rinehart, MD, a primary care physician at CaroMont Health Southpoint in Belmont, N.C., learned the importance of…
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May 22, 2012 | Erin McCann
Health system builds telehealth network, sees nearly 100 percent ROI
Working with video conference and communications firm Polycom, St. Vincent Health System recently launched a new…
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