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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
Children's Mercy Kansas City names Dr. Alejandro Quiroga as president and CEO 
Children's Mercy Kansas City names Dr. Alejandro Quiroga as president and CEO 
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
CMS ending VBID model due to high costs
CMS ending VBID model due to high costs
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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May 08, 2017 | Jeff Lagasse
Compliance technology boom, consulting demand help round out top MACRA trends
Nearly 9,000 physicians were surveyed by Black Book; research shows technology dominated MACRA trends.
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Tom Price healthcare bundled payments
Apr 03, 2017 | Susan Morse
Tom Price might soften bundled payments, but healthcare orgs will stay the course
Insurers are already seeing success, experts say, and they won't be quick to give up those savings.
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Dec 15, 2016 | Susan Morse
CMS introduces new Medicare-Medicaid ACO model
State-based effort is an Innovation Center initiative for clinicians to participate in advanced alternative payment models under MACRA.
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Nov 29, 2016 | Susan Morse
Consultant: Trump's choice for HSS, CMS leadership spells trouble for hospitals
With Tom Price leading HHS and Seema Verma at the CMS helm, hospitals should brace for value-based pullback,…
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Nov 29, 2016 | Henry Powderly
Reactions pour in on Tom Price pick for HHS secretary
Republicans highly pleased with the choice, but Democrats like Sen. Charles Schumer are very worried.
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Nov 11, 2016 | Susan Morse
Trump, as a businessman, may support CMMI for its innovation, analyst hopes
Athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush and consultant Paul Keckley both think Trump's desire to run the country as a…
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Nov 11, 2016 | Beth Jones Sanborn
MACRA will move forward largely untouched when Trump steps in, experts say
Re-evaluation of CMMI possible, along with other small changes, but law is largely safe, experts say.
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Nov 02, 2016 | Susan Morse
Medicare Advantage as an advanced payment model is in MACRA's distant future
Medicare Advantage takes on capitated risk, so why don't these plans qualify as an advanced alternative…
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Oct 28, 2016 | Jeff Lagasse
Exec recommends education, diligence in MACRA preparation
Elizabeth Mitchell of the Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement said with preparation, it would be hard to still get hit with…
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Oct 14, 2016 | Henry Powderly
MACRA reactions light up social media as organizations post early responses to 2,400-page rule
Huge final rule already has healthcare pros celebrating or lamenting the release.
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