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Finance
Analytics ROI: It's Not Only About the Money
Gains from analytics are not only about capturing additional margin. Return on investment for analytics can also be about improving...
Finance
The Latest Healthcare Trust Casualty: Billing Accuracy
Just 33% of consumers felt very confident that bills from their hospital/provider are accurate.
Strategy
Quorum Health Considers Shedding 4 More Hospitals
The health system has already shed 14 of the 38 hospitals it had when it formed less than four years...
Finance
CMS Readies Proposed 'Medicaid Fiscal Accountability Rule'
Seema Verma says the feds will crackdown on 'shady recycling schemes (that) drive up taxpayer costs and pervert the system.'
Strategy
What to Do When Converting a Hospital From Nonprofit to Investor-Owned
While perhaps not as controversial as it once was, the 'conversion' of a nonprofit hospital to a for-profit venture can...
Finance
URMC Pays $3M to Settle HIPAA Breaches
The failure to encrypt mobile devices results in a hefty settlement.
Finance
As Congress Works To Curb Surprise Medical Bills, N.Y.'s Fix Gets Examined
In 2015, New York passed a surprise billing law that uses 'baseball-style' arbitration as a way to settle payment disputes...
Strategy
Outcome Health to Pay $70M to End Fraud Probe
Among the allegations, former executives at Outcome lied to outside auditors about revenue for 2015 and 2016 in order to...
Finance
Opinion: How Your Beloved Hospital Helps To Drive Up Healthcare Costs
Hospital prices increased a whopping 42% from 2007 to 2014 for inpatient care and 25% for outpatient care, compared with...
Strategy
AdventHealth Acquires Two Florida Hospitals
Heart of Florida Regional Medical Center in Davenport and Lake Wales Medical Center are renamed AdventHealth Heart of Florida and...
FSMB Takes Custody of Hahnemann Hospital Residency Training Records
The financially troubled 496-bed teaching hospital in Philadelphia shutters on September 6.
Finance
Dialysis Industry Spends Big To Protect Profits
This year's political spending is aimed at killing a bill in the California legislature that would disrupt the industry's business...