Category: Healthcare Finance News

Healthcare has an opportunity to improve patient engagement for those with traumatic brain injuries

Patient Engagement efforts could go further to ensure that patients with cognitive challenges receive the care they need.

CMS guidelines allow some hospitals to return to relative normal

The recommendations allow hospitals in areas with a low incidence of COVID-19 to schedule elective surgeries again.

Your stories: COVID-19 takes over our lives

Now in the fourth week of publishing comments, readers tell us how the coronavirus pandemic is affecting their practice, their health and their finances.

How data is presented to clinicians can make work more efficient, bend the cost curve

Integrating cost and clinical-decision-support information reduced medication errors and burnout prevalence at Houston Methodist.

Perinatal mental health lacks awareness, needs funding, report says

Proponents want Medicaid and private insurers to extend coverage for one year postpartum.

UnitedHealth Group’s Andrew Witty to join WHO vaccine efforts

Witty will take a take a leave of absence with an expected return as Optum CEO by the end of the year.

COVID-19 measures such as social distancing are justified despite economic hit

The benefits of social distancing policies will outweigh the economic costs by $5.2 trillion, economists find.

COVID-19 threatening long-term financial sustainability of senior living facilities

If such facilities can’t bring in new residents, their business model essentially collapses.

CMS increases Medicare payment for high-production coronavirus lab tests

The action is being taken to rapidly expand COVID-19 testing, particularly for those with Medicare and in nursing homes.

Life support physicians offer guidance in the context of resource-scarce COVID-19 treatment

When demand outpaces the ability to provide ECMO therapies, physicians should be prepared to determine when and if to offer such support.