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Finance
After a Decade of Lobbying, ALS Patients Gain Faster Access to Disability PaymentsPeople with ALS often must quit their jobs and sometimes their spouses do, too, to provide care, leaving families in...
Finance
Continuing Resolution Delays $4B DSH Cuts For One WeekPresident Donald J. Trump is expected to sign the resolution, which delays a government shutdown that would have taken effect...
Strategy
Hospital Patient Volumes Had Slow Recovery in NovemberA report from Strata Decision Technology shows a decrease in volumes in hospitals during the month of November, despite a...
Telehealth
Analysis Predicts Telehealth in 2021 Will Mitigate Rising COVID-19-related CostsTelehealth will have a more significant positive impact on cost trends in 2021 and beyond as its usage becomes more...
Finance
Fitch Ratings Predicts Rough Times Ahead for NFP HospitalsHospitals will face continued financial stress in the first half of 2021, at least until vaccines are widely available.
Finance
Employees Poor Health Cost Employers $575B in 2019Days with illness-related absences which led to "lost productivity" totaled almost 1.5 billion days annually for all employees, the study...
Clinical Care
Report: After 20 Years, Why Isn’t Patient Safety Better?A new report from medical liability insurer Coverys takes a close look at why patient safety in this country is...
Innovation
Artificial Intelligence Delivers $40M in Real Savings to Tampa GeneralGE Healthcare's Command Center technology also helps eliminate 20,000 excess days and reduces average length of stay by half a...
Finance
Medicare Fines Half of Hospitals for Readmitting Too Many PatientsThe penalties are the ninth annual round of the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program created as part of the Affordable Care...
Finance
17 States Have Implemented or Explored Prescription Drug Affordability Review Boards A new report from Manatt Health reviews the "current legislative landscape pertaining to" drug affordability review boards.
Finance
Grenades, Bread and Body Bags: How Illinois Has Spent $1.6 Billion in Response to COVID-19 So FarFighting?and adapting to?the coronavirus in Illinois has been costly. So far, state agencies have spent more than $1.6 billion in...
Clinical Care
What Kind of Peer Review Data is Helpful to Present to the Board?The chair wants to boil the data down to a few metrics that the board can track, following the "Less...