Category: Healthcare Finance News

CMS is testing an alternative payment model for dementia services

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is testing an alternative payment model for providers who deliver supportive services to people with dementia. This includes comprehensive, person-centered assessments and care plans, care coordination, an…

Steps hospitals can take to protect medical devices from cyberattcks

Mark Bowling, chief risk, security, and information security officer at ExtraHop, has years of cybersecurity experience as a former Former FBI field executive, a nuclear engineering officer with the Navy and in various CISO roles. He knows the ins and …

School nurses top list of unhappiest nursing jobs in U.S.

School nurses topped this year’s list of the unhappiest nursing jobs in the U.S. as tracked by Nursing Process, followed closely by hospital staff nurses, emergency room nurses and substance abuse nurses.

HCA’s Sam Hazen addresses class action lawsuit from data breach

HCA Healthcare CEO Sam Hazen addressed what he called the “multiple class action lawsuits” against the healthcare system due to a recent data breach.

Final rule increases proposed payments to inpatient rehab and psychiatric facilities

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued final rules updating inpatient rehabilitation and psychiatric facility payments that are higher than what was proposed in April.

Nevada becomes the latest to liquidate Friday Health Plans

Less than a week after Colorado decided to move Friday Health Plans into liquidation, the state of Nevada is following suit, announcing that it would liquidate the insurtech’s health plans in the state and p

483, or 15% of hospitals earn 5-stars in latest CMS ratings

In the latest Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services hospital star rating system, 483 received the highest ranking of 5 stars.
This compares to 429 hospitals that received 5 stars in 2022.
More than 75% of the 4,654 hospitals in the Care Compare Da…

Healthcare tops industries affected by data breaches

While data breaches affect all industries, healthcare suffers the largest financial hit, according to data compiled by the Ponemon Institute.
This year, the average cost of a data breach reached an all time high of $4.4 million. That’s a 2.3% increase …

Community Health Systems sells three hospitals to Tampa General for $290M

Subsidiaries of Franklin, Tennessee-based Community Health Systems have agreed to sell three Florida hospitals to Tampa General Hospital in a deal estimated to be worth $290 million, with the transaction expected to close later this year.
The hospitals…

Proposed rules build on Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act

The departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and the Treasury have proposed new rules meant to better ensure that those seeking coverage for mental health and substance use disorder can access treatment more easily – as easily as, say, seeking c…