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Proposed inpatient payment rates ‘woefully inadequate’ AHA says
Acute care hospitals are getting a 2.6% payment increase in a proposed rule released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services last week.
The proposal reflects a projected 2025 hospital market basket percentage increase of 3%, reduced by a 0.4…
Financial fallout continues from Change cyberattack
Over three-quarters of physician practices have experienced severe disruptions since the February 21 Change Healthcare cyberattack, according to an American Medical Association survey of state medical associations and national medical specialty societies.
Banner Health’s President Amy Perry named CEO
Phoenix-based Banner Health has named Amy Perry as the health system’s new CEO.
Currently Banner’s president, Perry will become both CEO and president after the retirement of Peter S. Fine, who was appointed CEO and president in 2000.
Intermountain Health spinoff Culmination Bio announces partnership
Intermountain Health spinoff Culmination Bio has announced a partnership with BillionToOne on oncology diagnostics.
Final rule issues guardrails in compensation to agents and brokers
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is cracking down on compensation to agents and brokers, in a final rule released last week.
Optum’s deal to buy Steward should be scrutinized, senators say
Massachusetts senators are asking the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission to scrutinize the proposed sale of Steward Health Care’s physician Group to Optum over concerns of UnitedHealth Group’s market dominance.
Hospitals prepare for total solar eclipse
Health systems and departments of health within the path of totality of today’s total solar eclipse have been preparing for the onslaught of spectators in their cities and towns for the most exciting four minutes in celestial viewing since 1963.
The Un…
Shrinking rural hospital margins aided by COVID-19 relief funds
COVID-19 federal relief funds helped rural hospitals’ financial performance but raises questions going forward about the 48% of these providers that consistently experience negative operating margins, according to a new issue brief released by the Amer…
In two deals, Intermountain’s Saltzer Health finds buyers
Saint Alphonsus Health System has agreed to acquire an ambulatory surgery center and two urgent care centers from Intermountain’s Saltzer Health.
Intermountain announced in January that it would close Saltzer Health in Idaho on March 29 if no buyer was…
CMS finalizes 3.7% payment increase for Medicare Advantage plans
Medicare Advantage plans are getting a 3.7% rate increase for 2025, or over $16 billion, from 2024 to 2025.
