Despite efforts by insurance companies and other payers to move toward compensating physicians based on the quality and value of care they provide, most physicians employed in group practices owned by health systems are paid primarily based on the volu…
More than 340 members of the U.S. House of Representatives, led by Reps.
Methodist Health System, headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, went all-in on automating the revenue cycle, starting in 2018 and going live in 2019.
The health system worked with Alpha Health, now called AKASA, for unified automation in the revenue cycle t…
Kimberly Scaccia took on the position of vice president of Revenue Cycle for Mercyhealth Systems in Southern Wisconsin and Northern Illinois in March 2020, at the same time the pandemic was ramping up.
Scaccia immediately needed to figure out how to se…
A record 14.5 million people have signed up for 2022 health care coverage through the federal Affordable Care Act marketplaces during the most recent open enrollment period from November 1, 2021 to January 15, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Serv…
In what AHIP calls a push to ensure affordable and quality choices in the federal health insurance marketplaces, the organization for insurers has submitted comments in response to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Notice of Benefit and Paym…
Mayo Clinic has selected Oracle’s Fusion Cloud Application Suite to meet its 2030 goal for quality care and the treatment of complex diseases.
Patients come to the Mayo Clinic for answers and treatments they can’t get anywhere else, CFO Dennis Dahlen …
In an annual State of Clinic address this week, Cleveland Clinic President and CEO Dr. Tom Mihaljevic said the nonprofit academic medical center will be investing about $1.3 billion in capital projects this year, including new hospitals, buildings and …
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has subtracted a pair of COVID-19 monoclonal antibody treatments from the approved list due to what the agency has deemed “ineffectiveness” against the Omicron variant, which has spread rapidly throughout the U.S. …
HCA Healthcare plans to build five new full-service hospitals in Texas to meet the state’s growing population and need for healthcare services.
The new hospitals will be located in the Dallas Fort-Worth area; Houston area; in San Antonio, in partnershi…
