Category: Healthcare Finance News

American Rescue Plan will be credit positive for nonprofit hospitals, says Fitch

The American Rescue Plan contains a number of measures that would subtly improve the revenue profile and reduce cost pressures for nonprofit hospitals, according to Fitch Ratings. 

Uber expands prescription delivery with ScriptDrop

Uber is expanding prescription delivery across 37 states in the United States with ScriptDrop. 
There are plans for further expansion in the coming weeks and months. 

Negative operating margins likely to haunt 39% of hospitals in 2021

With scores of Americans getting vaccinated by the day, hospitals are slowly allowing themselves to feel optimistic about their financial recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. But even in the best case scenario, 39% of hospitais will likely have negativ…

athenahealth attempts to tackle physician burnout through medical coding

Provider burnout is a persistent problem in healthcare, and has only been made worse by the added pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic. To address this, software and services company athenahealth has rolled out its new Medical Coding solution that aims t…

How health systems should be preparing now for the future of hospital at home

As CMS signals longer-term changes in acute RPM reimbursement and Amazon teams with major providers to push for new policies, clinical and IT leaders should start planning ahead, says one expert. “Everyone has to be thinking about this.”

Cerner makes moves into the life insurance game

The vendor announced that it was collaborating with New York Life to facilitate and simplify EHR retrieval.

Special Affordable Care Act enrollment period is extended to August 15 

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is extending the special enrollment period for Affordable Care Act coverage from May 15 until August 15.
The action provides new and current enrollees an additional three months to enroll or re-evaluate th…

AHIP, others applaud House bill focused on audio-only telehealth for Medicare Advantage

America’s Health Insurance Plans has praised the introduction of a bill that would improve access to audio-only telehealth for seniors in Medicare Advantage. The bill, which was originally introduced in July 2020, was revived by the U.S. House of Repre…

Electronic prior authorizations reduce burden, time spent, finds AHIP and RTI

Handling prior authorization requests electronically as opposed to manually can reduce the median time between submitting a PA request and receiving a decision — clocking in at around three times faster for a time reduction of about 69%, according to …

Senate to vote this week on Medicare sequester cuts moratorium

Although a vote has yet to be officially scheduled, the Senate is expected to vote on a hotlined version of H.R. 1868.