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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
5.6 million people affected by Ascension cyberattack
5.6 million people affected by Ascension cyberattack
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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Three things keeping financial leaders up at night
Managing the revenue cycle in an everchanging market.
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Nov 30, 2023 | Nathan Eddy
Hospitals confront mounting reimbursement challenges and diminishing cash reserves
Revenue reductions linked to Medicare Advantage denials surged by 55.7%, while those from commercial payers…
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Hospital professionals and business person meet
Sep 28, 2023 | Susan Morse
Hospitals face a rocky recovery to financial health, AHA says
Most agencies are reporting significantly more credit rating downgrades than upgrades, the AHA says.
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Faith Regional Health System in Nebraska kept the lights on by focusing on the basics.
Oct 16, 2020 | Susan Morse
Faith Regional Health System: To thrive, 'focus on the basics'
The Nebraska health system was able to keep financially afloat during the crisis without layoffs or furloughs.
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Oct 14, 2020 | Jeff Lagasse
Public hospitals are compounding COVID-19 budget risks for large urban counties, Moody's finds
The surging costs of tackling the pandemic are straining public hospital budgets, increasing…
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Sep 03, 2020 |
COVID-19 is expected to impact operating margins for the long term, finds Fitch
Fitch found that operating margins and operating EBITDA increased in 2019 to 2.3% and 8.7%, respectively, up…
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Mar 22, 2020 | Susan Morse
Hospitals could close without immediate financial relief
The coronavirus is causing hospitals to ramp up for a surge of cases while having to give up elective procedures that sustain their…
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Financial distress forecasting can help hospitals avoid closures
Jul 24, 2018 | Jeff Lagasse
Advice for struggling hospitals: Use financial distress forecasting to avoid closing down
Understanding the root causes of financial hardship enables hospital executives to best pick which…
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MD Anderson's CFO on turning profitability around
Apr 09, 2018 | Beth Jones Sanborn
MD Anderson CFO Ben Melson on overcoming EHR and Hurricane Harvey financial challenges to be profitable again
From an Epic install, a drop in patient volumes and Hurricane Harvey, MD…
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Pension liability: A big opportunity to save millions
Jan 09, 2018 | Susan Morse
Pension liability: A hospital's opportunity to save millions
Hospital executives and finance teams are missing an opportunity to save money in paying unfunded pension liability. Here's…
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