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Senators urge action on physician payment cut
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Trends 2025: The demand for interim revenue cycle executives
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Advocate spending $1B on new hospital and outpatient services
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Cigna nixes speculation of a Humana merger
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Feds shore up supply chain in wake of hurricanes
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Healthcare expenditures rise on increased coverage and utilization
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Health system operating margins declined in August
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American Heart Association launching HCM initiative
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CFPB warns of illegal tactics by medical debt collectors
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Denials top reason for eroding provider-payer relationship
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Male physicians have more net worth than females
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5.6 million people affected by Ascension cyberattack
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Hospitals, physicians submit opposing views to FTC ruling
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Children's Medical expands with new patient tower
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Nebraska sues Change over ransomware attack
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Telehealth gets short extension, physician pay is cut in spending bill
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AMA pushes for stricter standards for hospital charity care policies
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Interoperability in healthcare moving forward despite challenges
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Medicare enrollees to pay less for 64 additional drugs
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Senate bill proposes to rein in PBMs
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Trends 2025: Telehealth's future faces a Friday deadline
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Addus Homecare buttons up $350M Gentiva acquisition
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Apr 07, 2023 More on Medicare & Medicaid

Top Stories: Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust fund to run dry by 2031

The agencies came to this conclusion after a meeting of the Social Security and Medicare Boards of Trustees, which released its annual reports.

Jeff Lagasse, Editor

Photo: knape/Getty Images

The Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund may be running dry. When are federal agencies predicting it will happen? We'll examine that issue and more in this week's Top Stories, including digital health companies' startup efforts, and a Northwell agreement with Philips.

For more news and features from Jeff Lagasse, visit Healthcare Finance News.

In this episode:

Talking points:

  • Secretary of Treasury Janet L. Yellen said that Social Security and Medicare are "bedrock programs" that older Americans rely on for their retirement security.
  • Digital health startups raised $3.4 billion across 132 deals in the first quarter.
  • Digital health saw a relatively large number of mega-deals, or rounds worth $100 million or more.
  • Northwell hopes to enhance patient care and improve patient outcomes while driving interoperability and data innovation.

Twitter: @JELagasse
Email the writer: Jeff.Lagasse@himssmedia.com

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