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'An Industry-Wide Issue': Bad Debt Over $10M at One-Third of Hospitals

Most healthcare organizations are suffering from rising bad debt as well as a lack of confidence and resources to combat it. Health system executives are...

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Hospitals Help Clinicians With 'Second Victim Distress'

More hospitals and health systems are creating second victim support programs to help clinicians cope after adverse events. A version of this article appeared in...

Trump Administration Unveils Association Health Plans Final Rule

Supporters say AHPs offer affordable coverage alternatives for small businesses and individuals. Critics call the plans 'junk insurance' with narrow coverage that stick consumers with...

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In Setting Strategic Initiatives: Don’t Chase a Distant Future

Chasing a futurists’ view of the healthcare delivery system of the future must be viewed with ample scrutiny as health systems allocate finite resources into...

VA Telemedicine Cut Hospital Transfers for ICU Patients

No increase in 30-day mortality was observed after the cuts. This article first appeared June 18, 2018 on Medpage Today. By Salynn Boyles A Veterans Affairs...

MD Anderson Ordered to Pay $4.3M HIPAA Fine

A judge affirmed a fine HHS issued last year over the Texas cancer center's use of unencrypted devices. The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer...

Key to Healthcare Transformation? Reading Hospital's CFO Says 'Visionary Leadership'

Robert Ehinger, who serves as both CFO of Reading Hospital and senior vice president of financial operations at Tower Health, discusses financial strategies for healthcare....

Trump's China Tariffs Expected to Pinch Healthcare Industry

The administration included a variety of medical supplies in a list of Chinese goods subject to a 25% tariff beginning next month. A tariff on...

ER Staffing Split Along Urban-Rural Divide

Nearly two-thirds of emergency medicine physicians work in urban communities, and the staffing mix in rural counties reflects an emergency physician shortage in those areas...

What to Expect at HFMA ANI 2018 in Las Vegas

Check out the speakers, sessions, and product launches that HealthLeaders Media is looking forward to at the 2018 HFMA ANI conference in Las Vegas. HealthLeaders...

Blue Cross Blue Shield Companies Saved Billions with Tax Cuts

The impact of tax reform and an overall improvement in earnings resulted in a favorable change to capital and surplus in 2017 of almost $8.8...

Healthcare's Next Cost Challenge: Tackling Rising Prices

The employer medical cost trend has stabilized at about 6% annually through 2019, but that's still unsustainable and well out of line with the Consumer...

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