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Strategy
Ascension Subsidiary Moves Beyond Healthcare
Process automation company Agilify, which has saved the health system 10% in costs for five straight years, launches for healthcare as well as other industries.
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Finance
'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.
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Finance
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 Price Index and wage increases, PwC says.
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Clinical Care
2 Orange County doctors among 3 more charged in alleged hospital health care fraud scheme
Three more doctors are facing federal charges tied to their alleged role in a $580 million healthcare scheme centered around Pacific Hospital.
Clinical Care
Two doctors accused of sexual harassment have cost NYC hospital system nearly $500,000 in settlements
The city hospital system has paid nearly $500,000 to settle lawsuits accusing two of its high-level doctors of being sexist sickos, a review of public records shows.
Finance
Azar Pressed on Trump's Drug Pricing Plan
'Where are the big, bold ideas?' asks ranking Senate Democrat.
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Finance
As Medicaid Costs Soar, States Try A New Approach
Nationwide, a dozen states are experimenting with Medicaid ACOs and 10 more are making plans for them.
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Strategy
Spectrum Health Integrates Telehealth, Patient Portal to Cut Costs
A Michigan health system's patient portal has a half million accounts, and its telemedicine service has doubled volume in the past 12 months.
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Strategy
HSHS chain and hospital workers near $62 million settlement in pension suit
The original lawsuit alleged that Hospital Sisters Health System, which operates St. Elizabeth's Hospital in O'Fallon, improperly used a religious exemption in federal pension laws to shortchange...
Finance
The cost of your health insurance may hold steady next year. Thank the tight labor market
According to researchers at PwC, many employers are looking to insulate workers from rising health costs as the labor force tightens. PwC's Health Research Institute projects large employers will...
Clinical Care
Air ambulances are flying more patients than ever, and leaving massive bills behind
When three-year-old West Cox’s fever hit 107 degrees, doctors called a helicopter. Hours earlier, the toddler, who’d been prescribed an antibiotic for a suspected ear infection, was at home in...
Finance
Trump OMB Appointee Blasts Obama-Era Value Programs
- Says CMMI programs aren't working; have 'failed to deliver.'
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