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Payer
AHA: Site-neutral Payments Ignore Hospitals' Adverse Patient Mix
Payers counter that removing exemptions for all site-neutral payments could save taxpayers $471 billion over 10 years.
Clinical Care
Workforce Key Constraint on Healthcare Organization Growth Strategies, Survey Finds
The vast majority of healthcare executives surveyed said workforce will have a significantly negative or negative impact on growth strategies...
Finance
The Exec: Summit Health/CityMD CFO Says Role Evolved From Being Scorekeeping-In-Chief
CFOs must be strategic business partners to both clinical and operational leadership.
Finance
Why 2022 Was The Worst Financial Year For Healthcare Since COVID-19 Began
December was the only month last year that hospitals saw positive year-to-date margins.
Finance
Rising Outpatient Surgery Volumes Offer Opportunity For Value-Based Care Models, Study Finds
The move to more outpatient surgeries has resulted in a 22% cost savings for hospitals.
Finance
Hospital Margins See Slight Uptick in November
Lower expenses and increased outpatient revenue drove improved month-over-month performance.
Clinical Care
The Exec: Chief Clinical Officer Makes Predictions for 2023
AdventHealth's Neil Finkler predicts healthcare workforce shortages will spur adoption of technology such as artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Marketing
As STDs Proliferate, Companies Rush to Market At-Home Test Kits. But Are They Reliable?
The issue for regulators is whether sampling kits can be reliably adapted for in-home use.
Clinical Care
The Exec: Health Systems Succeed With Effective Outpatient Strategies
Outpatient practices can drive value, harness telemedicine, provide access, and promote equitable care.
Clinical Care
Johns Hopkins Medicine Reaches Telehealth Visit Milestone
The Baltimore-based health system has provided more than 1.5 million telehealth visits since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic.
Revenue Cycle
Telehealth Diagnoses Match In-Person Clinical Visit Diagnoses in 86.9% of Cases, Study Finds
Concordance between telehealth diagnoses and in-person visit diagnoses was lowest when in-person visit diagnoses involved physical examination, neurological testing, or...
Clinical Care
Standalone Infusion Center CEO: 'The Patient Experience Is Superior'
Health systems and hospitals have an opportunity to open their own standalone infusion centers or to establish joint ventures with...