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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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News

Nov 10, 2013 | Chris Anderson, Richard Pizzi
ICD-10, transformation of revenue cycle
Healthcare providers are expecting some form of slow down in accounts receivables immediately after the ICD-10 conversion in ...
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Jun 12, 2013 | Chris Anderson
Demand grows for price transparency
As employers and individuals seek ways to squeeze more value out of their healthcare dollars, their demand for solid pricing and ...
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Jun 10, 2013 | Chris Anderson
MLR regs saved consumers $2.1B in 2012
A report issued June 6 by the Kaiser Family Foundation contends that the medical loss requirement (MLR) of the Affordable Care ...
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Jun 07, 2013 | Chris Anderson
Price transparency market to grow to $3B
Growing enrollment in high-deductible health plans (HDHPs) will be a major driver of the move toward healthcare price ...
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Jun 04, 2013 | Chris Anderson
Proportion of families having difficulty paying medical bills declines
A preliminary analysis of healthcare cost data released this week by the National Center for ...
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Jun 01, 2013 | Chris Anderson
The price is right
Health insurer Priority Health has announced it has contracted with Healthcare Blue Book to publish cost and quality information for more than 300 ...
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May 24, 2013 | Chris Anderson
Family healthcare costs continue to grow
The cost of healthcare in 2013 for a family of four receiving health benefits through an employer-sponsored preferred ...
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May 21, 2013 | Chris Anderson
Emergency departments now account for half of all hospital inpatient admissions
Emergency departments are now responsible for half of all inpatient admissions and ...
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May 17, 2013 | Chris Anderson
Medicare Advantage managed care plans surpass outcomes of regular Medicare
A new analysis of more than 3 million claims for Medicare patients found that patients ...
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May 13, 2013 | Chris Anderson
Value-based payments picking up steam
The number of health plans that expect more than half their business will be under value-based models is expected to triple in ...
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