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GenAI: Risk vs. reward causing adoption to stall
Risk is one reason hospitals in the United States do not yet have large-scale adoption of generative AI, according to Patrick Bangert, senior vice president of Data and Analytics at Searce, a cloud solutions and technology services provider.
Bangert be…
Walgreens to lay off 5% of corporate workforce
Walgreens Boots Alliance is laying off 267 corporate employees, which represents 5% of that workforce,
Moody’s upgrades healthcare outlook from negative to stable for 2024
Moody’s Investors Service has revised its 2024 outlook for the not for profit and public healthcare sector to stable from negative, driven in large part by a decrease in labor costs.
Mass General Brigham partners with Best Buy on tech for acute care at home
Best Buy Health and Mass General Brigham are collaborating on the health system’s acute hospital care at home program called Mass General Brigham’s Home Hospital.
This technology-enabled clinical delivery model will expand access to Massachusetts resi…
AHA says 3.1% hospital outpatient payment increase is not enough
The American Hospital Association has criticized the “inadequate update” to outpatient hospital payments in the 2024 Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment System
Wins and losses in the physician fee schedule final rule
Providers are weighing in on the 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule, which finalized payment amounts in 2024 that will be reduced by 1.25% overall compared to 2023.
HIMSSCast: Innovation is needed to staff skilled nursing and other provider facilities
On September 1, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposed minimum nursing standards for nursing homes, a move that has received pushback from stakeholders and lawmakers.
A final rule is due out after the public comment period closes on Mo…
AHA sues OCR over rule regulating the use of online tracking technologies
The American Hospital Association, the Texas Hospital Association and nonprofit health systems Texas Health Resource and the United Regional Health Care System are suing the federal government over a rule prohibiting the use of online tracking technolo…
Home health agencies get less than a 1% payment increase
Home health agencies get a 0.8% pay increase for 2024 rather than a proposed 2.2% decrease, under the Home Health Prospective Payment System Final Rule released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Wednesday.
CMS estimates that Medicare…
Medicare physician pay is unsustainable, AMA says
The American Medical Association and others are calling on Congress to stop the advanced Alternative Payment Model bonus payment cut that is scheduled to expire at the end of the year for most physicians.
