Reimbursement
If such facilities can’t bring in new residents, their business model essentially collapses.
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Revenue Cycle Management
Understanding contract loopholes, and being self-advocates during negotiations, can help community hospitals increase their collections.
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Strategic Planning
In Orlando, health IT professionals will get an update on what FHIR currently can and can’t do – and what to expect from it going forward.
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Capital Finance
Revenue is tanking, while expenses are going up, as organizations prepare for big surges in coronavirus cases.
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Supply Chain
If the current pandemic continues much longer, acquiring needed ventilator medications will present long-term challenges for patient care.
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Budgeting
With a labor-intensive budgeting process that provided little business value, OSF Healthcare decided it was time to be more flexible.
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Quality and Safety
When demand outpaces the ability to provide ECMO therapies, physicians should be prepared to determine when and if to offer such support.
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Billing and Collections
Nonprofit insurer is working with two financial-services partners to provide financing guarantees, advance payments and restructuring of contracts.
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Claims Processing
Prior authorization requirements have hindered freeing up hospital beds due to delays in getting inpatients to post-acute care.
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Workforce
The message is clear: Nurses and physicians should treat asymptomatic patients as carefully as symptomatic patients.
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Operations
Witty will take a take a leave of absence with an expected return as Optum CEO by the end of the year.
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Medical Devices
The custom sensor would measure information from the body beyond heart rate, report says.
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Compliance & Legal
Anthem claims the DOJ has violated the law in holding Medicare Advantage plans to payment standards that are not applied to regular Medicare.
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Policy and Legislation
The five new ventilator contracts are expected to ramp up production, while immunotherapy development could help in coronavirus treatment.
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Community Benefit
The nonprofit health system has sponsored numerous programs and services that help address social determinants of health.
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Accountable Care
NAACOS and others want CMS to hold harmless providers participating in alternative payment models from performance-related penalties for 2020.
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Acute Care
While new technologies are being deployed, health systems can use existing resources to help combat the coronavirus’s spread.
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Ambulatory Care
The institutions that were studied added more than $562 billion in value to the nation’s economy in 2017, including direct and indirect economic impact.
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Analytics
Integrating cost and clinical-decision-support information reduced medication errors and burnout prevalence at Houston Methodist.
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Business Intelligence
Report analyzed more than 1.8 billion commercial healthcare claims and data visualization to benchmark prices and use across 112 metropolitan areas from 2012 to 2016.
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ICD-10 & Coding
Doctors need to carefully and properly use the HCC codes, which indicate the expected costs for a patient.
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Meaningful Use
Administrator Seema Verma said changes to the program eliminate 25 measures and saves hospitals over 2 million hours of work and $75 million.
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Medicare & Medicaid
To ease physician burden during COVID-19, non-physician practitioners will be able to perform documentation duties.
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Patient Engagement
Patient Engagement efforts could go further to ensure that patients with cognitive challenges receive the care they need.
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Pharmacy
Should states win their case to regulate how PBMs contract with pharmacies, plan costs will rise, AHIP says.
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Risk Management
IT security is a legacy word, says Brian Selfridge: “This isn’t cybersecurity, this is risk.”
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Telehealth
Walgreens Find Care now includes a COVID-19 risk assessment powered by Microsoft Healthcare Bot on Microsoft Azure.
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