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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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CVS Pharmacy storefront
Dec 05 | Jeff Lagasse
CVS Health closing MinuteClinic locations in Utah
Patients will still be able to access virtual MinuteClinic services and visit CVS Pharmacy locations.
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Dr. Sreekanth Chaguturu is the new president of Health Care Delivery, as well as EVP and CMO.
Nov 21 | Susan Morse
CVS announces Dr. Sreekanth Chaguturu as president, Health Care Delivery
Mike Pykosz, who has served in that role and confounded Oak Street Health, is leaving CVS.
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Woman fanning herself in the heat
Aug 05 | Jeff Lagasse
CVS Health launches initiative to track extreme heat
The initiative is focusing first on extreme heat events to provide timely excessive heat alerts and tailored outreach to at-risk patients.
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CVS entrance with pillars on either side
Apr 18 | Jeff Lagasse
CVS, inVio creating South Carolina ACO through REACH
The organizations said the collaboration will strengthen care coordination for patients.
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CVS store entrance inside columns
Dec 07, 2023 | Susan Morse
CVS launches new Healthspire brand in integration of health services business
Healthspire includes Caremark, Cordavis, Oak Street Health, Signify Health and Minute Clinic.
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Two people in lab coats examine a pill pack.
Dec 07, 2023 | Jeff Lagasse
CVS overhauls pharmacy reimbursement with CostVantage model
CVS is also debuting TrueCost, which offers client pricing reflecting the true net cost of prescription drugs.
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A healthcare office visit
Jun 01, 2023 | Jeff Lagasse
Retail clinics seeing utilization soar, popularity grow
Retail clinic claims volumes grew 200% from 2017 through 2022, mainly due to high usage during the pandemic.
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Sep 13, 2022 | Jeff Lagasse
Aetna expanding to ACA exchanges in four new states
The CVS Health subsidiary exited the exchanges in 2018 but re-entered them at the beginning of this year.
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Aug 12, 2021 | Jeff Lagasse
Aetna, CVS Health enter into virtual primary care space
Members will be able to access a panel of board-certified physicians and coordinated care from a consistent team of specialists.
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Photos of Aetna president Karen Lynch and CVS Health CEO and president Larry Merlo
Nov 06, 2020 | Susan Morse
Aetna president to take helm of CVS Health as CEO Larry Merlo steps down next year
Aetna President Karen S. Lynch has been named next president and CEO of CVS. 
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