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CFO
Prepare Your Budget: 9 Healthcare Finance Predictions for 2025
From AI to reimbursement, CFOs have a lot to think about for 2025.
Innovation
New Study Questions Lack of Rural Hospital at Home Programs
Researchers found that most health systems following the CMS Acute Hospital Care at Home model are large urban hospitals, and...
Innovation
Can Congress Be Convinced to Take Telehealth Seriously?
The stopgap budget bill gave key telehealth and Hospital at Home waivers a three-month reprieve. Supporters now have to convince...
Innovation
CMS Launches New Program for Mental Health, OUD Treatment
The 8-year Innovation in Behavioral Health (IBH) Model focuses on care integration and coordination, alongside screening for health inequities, to...
Payer
How America Compares: Older Adults and Coverage Without Care
A new Commonwealth Fund survey explores the intersection of finances and healthcare among older adults, including differences between Medicare and...
CFO
Is VBC Working? OneCare Vermont Pulls the Plug
Is this a step backwards in the value-based care movement?
CFO
Hospitals Push Back Against Proposed Site-Neutral Payments
This proposal isn't sitting well with the industry.
Technology
Will Congress Save Telehealth?
CMS won't extend certain key pandemic-era waivers any longer, putting telehealth expansion plans in jeopardy. Will lawmakers step in and...
CFO
New Bill Aims to Increase Physician Pay, Block Medicare Cuts
The Medicare Patient Access and Practice Stabilization Act would, if passed, boost physician pay by 4.7%, replacing Medicare?s planned 2.8%...
Innovation
New Reimbursement Rules Give RPM Providers a Much-Needed Win
The decision from the AMA?s CPT panel will help health systems and hospitals scale and sustain smaller and more inclusive...
CFO
Payers Are Playing Hardball—And Hospital CFOs Are Paying the Price
New data exposes aggressive tactics by payers for Medicare Advantage denials.
CMO
Medicare's Proposed Physician Fee Cut Could Lead to Some Hard Decisions
Prevea Health's CMO says the proposed 2.8% cut in the 2025 Physician Fee Schedule could force providers to reduce or...