CHICAGO – Federal and state governments have made a number of investments in health information exchange (HIE) and interoperability infrastructure, exemplified by the ONC State HIE Cooperative Agreement and Medicaid HITECH 90/10 Federal Financial Parti…
More than half of payers, 58%, had at least one outcomes-based contract (OBC) in place during the 2022 plan year, and respondents to a new Avalere survey who are utilizing at least one OBC indicated oncology, cardiology, and endocrinology as the top th…
President Biden is proposing to expand Affordable Care Act and Medicaid health coverage for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients.
Mona Baset, Intermountain’s vice president of Digital Services, will share insights on the health system’s digital strategy in “Powering a Data-Driven Transformation in Digital Patient Access” on Tuesday, April 18, at HIMSS23 in Chicago.
A majority of healthcare providers, 61%, say they anticipate making greater use of third-party patient financing over the next couple of years, a new survey shows.
CWH Advisors conducted 38 in-depth interviews in the fourth quarter of 2022 with executi…
Healthcare Finance News: What acute care health waivers issued by CMS during the public health emergency will continue after the PHE expires on May 11?
Just 5% of U.S. adults say a doctor or other healthcare professional has talked to them about gun safety, according to a new Kaiser Family Foundation report on Americans’ experiences with gun-related violence.
The Office of Civil Rights is providing a 90-day transition period for healthcare providers to come into compliance with the HIPAA Rules regarding telehealth, according to the Department of Health and Human Services OCR.
The transition period will be…
A federal jury has convicted three former executives of Outcome Health, a Chicago-based health technology start-up company, for their roles in an alleged fraud scheme that targeted the company’s clients, lenders and investors and involved roughly $1 bi…
More rays of light are emerging for U.S. nonprofit hospitals on the labor front, according to the latest from Fitch Ratings, with hospital and ambulatory healthcare services payrolls having risen for 14 and 26 consecutive months, respectively, as of Ma…
