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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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News

MedPAC recommends FY16 hospital payment boost
Mar 18, 2015 | Debra A. McCurdy
MedPAC recommends FY16 hospital payment boost
In its annual recommendations to Congress on Medicare policies, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission recommends a ...
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CMS update boosts 2015 Medicare outpatient payment rates
Feb 25, 2015 | Debra A. McCurdy
CMS update boosts 2015 Medicare outpatient payment rates
CMS yesterday published a notice indicating an increase in the Medicare Hospital OPPS conversion factor from ...
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HHS Inspector General assesses new healthcare fraud alert topics
Dec 30, 2014 | Debra A. McCurdy
HHS Inspector General assesses new healthcare fraud alert topics
This week the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) published its annual solicitation of ...
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Insight on the revised Medicare provider enrollment regulations
Dec 15, 2014 | Debra A. McCurdy
Insight on the revised Medicare provider enrollment regulations
Earlier this month, CMS published a final rule that expands the circumstances under which it may deny ...
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Oct 20, 2014 | Debra A. McCurdy
CMS extends ACO fraud and abuse waivers
Last week the HHS Office of Inspector General and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services published a joint notice ...
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Jul 25, 2014 | Debra A. McCurdy
Assessing the new 340B interpretive rule
Although a May 2014 U.S. District Court ruling vacated HRSA's 340B orphan drug regulation, the agency has issued an ...
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May 19, 2014 | Debra A. McCurdy
CMS selectively tweaks regulatory rules
Last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services published a final rule that reforms federal health policy ...
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Mar 05, 2014 | Debra A. McCurdy
Reimbursement provisions in FY15 budget: $400 billion in cuts
The Obama Administration released its proposed federal budget for fiscal year 2015 this week. Virtually ...
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