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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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Healthcare-associated infection

Hospital staff and people in lobby
May 08 | Jeff Lagasse
Outpatient settings need to be safer, study finds
Preventable adverse events are common in such settings, with 1.9% of patients experiencing at least one preventable event.
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Surgeons in operating room
May 02 | Susan Morse
Hospitals improve their patient experience and infection scores  
The latest Safety Grades shows the first improvement since fall 2023, but the measures are still far from pre-pandemic…
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Healthcare worker in PPE by patient in hospital bed
Jan 19, 2023 | Jeff Lagasse
Adverse events among inpatient admissions hit 25% in 2018
Adverse drug events comprise 39% of the adverse events, making them the most common by far.
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Nov 16, 2022 | Jeff Lagasse
Hospitals improve never events, HAIs in Leapfrog's Safety Grades
The overall trend over the past decade has been for patient safety to improve, with progress made on falls and MRSA…
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Person in hospital bed with equipment
Nov 14, 2022 | Jeff Lagasse
Hospital acquired infections were on the rise in 2021, says CDC
Part of the reason for the uptick, the CDC said, was the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which impacted surveillance for HAIs.
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Person and healthcare worker. Photo: Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images
Apr 12, 2022 | Susan Morse
Nursing homes to get pay decrease in CMS proposed rule
The agency says it intends to issue proposed rules on minimum staffing level requirements within one year.
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A scene of surgery
Sep 20, 2021 | Jeff Lagasse
CDC spending more than $2 billion on infection control and prevention efforts
CDC said the funding will help personnel prevent infections more effectively, support rapid response and enhance…
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Person wearing PPE at hospital bed
Sep 03, 2021 | Susan Morse
COVID-19 increased the number of healthcare-acquired infections
Central line infections increased by at least 46%, compared to 2019.
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A home care visit. Photo: FGTrade/Getty Images
Jul 30, 2021 | Susan Morse
Skilled nursing, hospice and rehab facilities see payment increases in final rule
CMS has adopted a vaccination measure to assess whether skilled nursing facilities are taking steps to…
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Jul 10, 2020 | Jeff Lagasse
Value-based payment penalties disproportionately impact safety net hospitals
Neither safety net nor non-safety net hospitals showed improvements in the four infections analyzed, including…
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