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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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Leapfrog Group

Anne Snowdon, chief scientific research officer at HIMSS
Aug 15 | Susan Morse
Digital maturity makes a difference in patient safety and outcomes
"Do people really realize that digital maturity matters? It really does. It's quality and safety," says…
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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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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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Medical professional at desk with headphones and monitor
May 27, 2022 | Jeff Lagasse
Leapfrog urges CMS not to suppress hospital safety data
Leapfrog said the information CMS is seeking to curtail is critical for patients seeking the best performing hospitals.
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Patient sitting on bed
May 10, 2022 | Jeff Lagasse
Leapfrog Group hospital safety grades highlight decline in patient experience
The pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic have hampered progress on the patient safety front, though most hospitals…
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A surgical scene
Sep 09, 2021 | Jeff Lagasse
Shifting common outpatient procedures to ASCs shows cost savings
UnitedHealth Group says such a shift would reduce spending by 59%.
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Jul 22, 2020 | Jeff Lagasse
Employers give insurers so-so grade in push to drive healthcare quality and value
Cigna received the highest marks for its efforts toward driving for value, while UnitedHealthcare ranked…
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Feb 27, 2020 | Jeff Lagasse
Hospitals show improvements in meeting surgical safety standards; deficiencies remain
The good news is that a higher percentage of hospitals are meeting Leapfrog's minimum volume…
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Nov 07, 2019 | Susan Morse
Maine hospitals lead in Leapfrog safety grades
D and F graded hospitals carry nearly twice the risk of mortality of A-graded hospitals, with over 50,000 lives at stake, according to Leapfrog…
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