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From Sewers to Golf Courses, Cities See Green With New Federal COVID Relief DollarsThe American Rescue Plan Act provides $130 billion to cities and counties ? with few restrictions on how the money...
Payer
An Arm and a Leg': How One State Protects Patients From Hospital LawsuitsThis episode, the fourth in our series on charity care, focuses on how states are protecting consumers against aggressive hospital...
Revenue Cycle
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Will Incorporate Equity Measures into Payment ModelsIt's the first health plan in Massachusetts to announce such a plan, which will start in 2023.
Payer
Novel Treatments Challenge Traditional ReimbursementPaying for high-cost, breakthrough drugs is one of healthcare's abiding challenges?and tied to so many of the "pre-existing" conditions that...
Payer
California Supreme Court will hear CMA lawsuit against AetnaCMA claims that Aetna's actions violated the state's Unfair Competition Law.
Revenue Cycle
Surprise Billing, Digital Experiences Among Top Healthcare TrendsPwC's Health Research Institute has released its annual medical cost trend report, which forecasts a 6.5% medical cost trend in...
Revenue Cycle
35% of Patients Would Put Off COVID-19 Treatment to Avoid Medical BillsThe new VisitPay survey also showed that more than one-third of patients said they're more worried about the financial burdens...
Revenue Cycle
Inside the University of Kansas Health System's Interest-Free Loan OptionsThe system started offering its recourse program in March 2017, giving patients the ability to make smaller payments over a...
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.
Strategy
When Births Go Horribly Wrong, Florida Protects Doctors and Forces Families to Pay the Price A Florida program designed to reduce doctors' malpractice bills strips families of their right to sue, offering instead a one-time...
Finance
CMS Begins Recouping Accelerated Medicare PaymentsPayments will be recouped at a rate of 50% for six months after the initial 11-month period.
Revenue Cycle
Q&A: Revenue Code Assignment for COVID-19 Monoclonal AntibodiesTo prevent triggering a copay or deductible, CMS instructs institutional providers to bill monoclonal antibodies similar to vaccines.