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CFO
4 Ways CFOs Can Battle Low Reimbursement
CFOs are seeing more resource-intensive services that do not reimburse well, or at all.
Technology
Smart Phone Apps + Health Coach = Better Surgical Outcomes, Says UPMC
A digital platform developed at UPMC helps patients prep for surgery and speeds recovery.
CMO
Health System CMO Shares Impact of Change Healthcare Cyberattack
With prior authorizations disrupted, Davis Health System is performing fewer elective surgeries after the cyberattack.
CMO
4 CMO Predictions for Healthcare in 2024
Physician leaders will need to respond quickly to opportunities and challenges this year.
Human Resources
Scripps-Affiliated Docs Pay $6.8M to Settle Age Bias Suit
Scripps Clinical Medical Group says their now-rescinded mandatory retirement age for surgeons complied with California law.
CMO
Patients Facing Death Are Opting for a Lifesaving Heart Device — But at What Risk?
The manufacturer denied liability in two patient deaths.
CMO
Patients Expected Profemur Artificial Hips to Last. Then They Snapped in Half.
Over the past two decades, more than 750 Profemur hips have fractured at the neck.
CMO
Thousands Got Exactech Knee or Hip Replacements. Then, Patients Say, the Parts Began to Fail.
More than 1,100 patients have sued Exactech since it began recalling artificial knees, hips, and ankles, starting in August 2021.
CMO
Inside the Preventable Deaths That Happened Within a Prominent Transplant Center
James Eason, MD, who earned acclaim by operating on Steve Jobs, led the transplant center named in his honor at...
Innovation
New Project Applies Digital Health Tools to Curb Amputations
The "Saving Limbs, Saving Lives" campaign aims to give healthcare providers access to a digital health platform that offers care...
CMO
The Exec: 'Business as Usual Is No Longer a Successful Model'
In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, healthcare organizations must be nimble in identifying needs and be able to pivot...
Payer
In the 'Wild West' of Outpatient Vascular Care, Doctors Can Reap Huge Payments as Patients Risk Life and Limb
CMS data suggests that from 2017 to 2021 90 physicians billed for more than a third of all procedures and...