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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
MultiPlan refinances to extend debt capital structure
MultiPlan refinances to extend debt capital structure
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
Healthcare execs more optimistic heading into the new year, survey finds
Health execs more optimistic heading into 2025
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
Andrew Witty on defense over claim denials, Medicare Advantage
Andrew Witty on defense over claim denials, Medicare Advantage
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
Elevance closes deal to buy IU Health Plans
Elevance closes deal to buy IU Health Plans
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Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

Two hands shaking
Dec 27, 2024 | Jeff Lagasse
Commure acquires digital care navigator Memora Health
Memora helps health systems and payers to incorporate AI-driven workflow-automation technology.
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Doctor wearing VR glasses examines 3-D model of spine
Dec 26, 2024 | Jeff Lagasse
Trends 2025: AI in healthcare progressing despite reimbursement hurdles
New AI startups are facing difficulty getting off the ground even as the industry leans hard into the technology.
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Person holds injection pen
Nov 26, 2024 | Susan Morse
CMS announces obesity drug coverage in Medicare, Medicaid
The proposed rule would need to become final under the Trump Administration.
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Hand holding an IV bag
Nov 25, 2024 | Jeff Lagasse
Anesthesiologist sentenced to 190 years for IV bag tampering
Evidence suggests the anesthesiologist surreptitiously injected IV bags of saline with epinephrine, bupivacaine and other drugs.
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Foot on a scale
Oct 14, 2024 | Jeff Lagasse
Coverage for weight loss drugs could cost Medicare $35 billion by 2034
Total direct federal costs of covering AOMs would increase from $1.6 billion in 2026 to $7.1 billion in 2034, CBO finds.
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An IV bag at a hospital
Oct 14, 2024 | Jeff Lagasse
Feds shore up healthcare supply chain in wake of hurricanes Helene and Milton
Hospitals had 50% more product available to them this past week as compared to the week prior, HHS says.
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IV bag
Oct 08, 2024 | Susan Morse
AHA urges action as Hurricane Helene affects IV supply
North Carolina facility that produces 60% of supply closed due to Hurricane Helene.
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Person with back pain being helped out of a chair
Sep 12, 2024 | Jeff Lagasse
Highmark partnering with VR company on low back pain
The VR experience is designed to teach skills for managing chronic lower back pain and has demonstrated efficacy in some studies.
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Dana-Farber Cancer Institute president and CEO Dr. Laurie H. Glimcher, left, and Dr. Benjamin Levine Ebert, chair of the Department of Medical Oncology, right
Sep 04, 2024 | Susan Morse
Dana-Farber CEO and president to step down
Medical Oncology Chair Dr. Benjamin Ebert will take over as president and CEO on October 1. 
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Clinicians pointing to a computer screen
Aug 21, 2024 | Jeff Lagasse
Walgreens, BARDA team to strengthen clinical trials
Walgreens says it has reached more than five million patients to potentially recruit into clinical trials since its launch in 2022.
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