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Human Resources
Home Care Agency Ordered to Pay $1.4M in Back Wages and DamagesPittsburgh-based agency paid 218 workers straight time when the law required it to pay overtime rates and tried to hide...
Revenue Cycle
Organizations Are Working Toward Higher Pay, Improved Staffing For HIM DirectorsA recent survey focusing on the revenue cycle's health information management (HIM) department found that organizations are working on building...
Finance
Innovation, Partnerships Are RX for Pain of Rising Labor CostsHospitals are increasing salaries to maintain their workforce but paying for it means making other cuts or finding creative new...
Payer
Post-Pandemic, What’s a Phone Call From Your Physician Worth?Should insurers pay the same reimbursement rate for 'audio-only' visits as when a patient is sitting in a doctor?s office?
Payer
Oncology Doctors Say the Build Back Better Act Will Slash Cancer Care Funding — A Skewed ArgumentAd campaign says parts of the legislation would have 'serious unintended consequences' for cancer patients.
Revenue Cycle
5 Areas Where Ascension Has Created a Seamless Consumer Financial Journey 'We don't think about revenue cycle as any one individual's responsibility, but as our organization's responsibility,' says Jon Sohn, senior...
Clinical Care
Future of Program for Brain-Damaged Children Now Rests With Powerful Florida OfficialFlorida's chief financial officer must name new board members for the Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Association, as his office undertakes...
Revenue Cycle
R1 to Acquire VisitPay for $300MThe transaction, expected to close in the third quarter of 2021, combines two major players in rev cycle.
Revenue Cycle
Survey: High-Income Patients Most Likely to Delay CarePatients of all income levels need flexible payment options for their healthcare bills.
Strategy
Pandemic-Related Paid Sick Days and Leave to Expire Dec. 31 — With No Extension in SightUnions and workers' rights and consumer advocacy groups are this week waging a last-ditch effort to get Congress to extend...
Finance
MGMA, ACS, ACEP Pan 2021 Physician Fee ScheduleThe Medicare physician fee schedule final rule was released less than two weeks after the Trump administration announced changes to...
Finance
Employers and Private Insurers Paid Hospitals 247% of What Medicare Would HaveRAND 3.0 found that reducing hospital prices to Medicare rates would have resulted in $19.7 billion in savings for employers.