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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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Patient Engagement

Interconnected cityscape
Dec 23 | Jeff Lagasse
5.6 million people affected by Ascension cyberattack
The system says it will provide affected patients with complimentary credit monitoring and identity protection services.
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Hands pouring out pills from a bottle
Dec 23 | Jeff Lagasse
Medicare enrollees to pay less for 64 additional drugs
The drugs will have a lowered Part B coinsurance rate from January 1 through March 31 of next year, HHS says.
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Stethoscope on table
Dec 20 | Susan Morse
HIMSSCast: Research as restorative physician medicine
Research programs give patients access to clinical trials that "might be their last and only hope," said Topography CEO.
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Senior couple sorting through medical bills
Dec 19 | Jeff Lagasse
CMS ending VBID model due to high costs
CMS says the excess costs of the program were "unprecedented" in CMS Innovation Center models.
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The Change Healthcare booth at HIMSS24 in Orlando
Dec 17 | Jeff Lagasse
Nebraska sues Change Healthcare over ransomware attack
The shutdown disrupted critical healthcare services across the state and exposed Nebraskans' PHI, the lawsuit alleges.
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Mifepristone pills in a box
Dec 17 | Jeff Lagasse
Texas sues physician for prescribing abortion drugs via telehealth
The defendant is alleged to have knowingly treated Texas residents despite not being a licensed Texas physician.
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Mother holding child in doctor's office
Dec 16 | Jeff Lagasse
Children's Medical expands with new patient tower
The new tower adds 140 universal and ICU-capable inpatient beds, and the new emergency room has doubled in size.
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Stethoscope on table
Dec 13 | Susan Morse
HIMSSCast: The next big investment in patient experience is the CRM
Customer relationship management is the final piece in integrating the clinical, financial and communications sides of the…
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Doctor examining toddler
Dec 13 | Jeff Lagasse
OCR settles with UCLA over disability access
The settlement addresses allegations that UCLA's intervention program restricted access to a disabled toddler.
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Remote control changing TV channels
Dec 12 | Jeff Lagasse
FTC warns against deceptive health plan marketing
The agency warned against misrepresenting a health plan's costs and benefits, citing consumer complaints.
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