Category: Healthcare Finance News

Primary care physicians pushed to breaking point as more than half report no payments

As many as 13% predict closure within the next month, and 20% have already had temporary closures, the survey found.

OptumHealth acquires post-acute care management platform naviHealth

naviHealth will continue to work with its clients and members as a standalone entity aligned with OptumHealth.

COVID-19 pandemic driving steep volume and revenue declines as margins suffer

While volume and revenues plummeted to historic levels, expenses remained nearly flat, putting pressure on hospitals as the coronavirus spreads.

Hospital EHR spending projected to reach $9.9B by 2024

Despite budgetary strains from the COVID-19 pandemic, a new report predicts regulatory requirements and medical-service spending growth will benefit electronic health record vendors in the years to come.

HHS expands U.S.-based pharmaceutical manufacturing to get drugs to hospitals faster

Government and Phlow Corp. are developing a prioritized list of active pharmaceutical ingredients and medicines critically needed by health systems.

HIMSSCast: How COVID-19 has accelerated healthcare trends, with MoneyBall Medicine’s Harry Glorikian

An interview with MoneyBall Medicine author and investor Harry Glorikian.

Healthcare workers treating COVID-19 show more negative mental health effects

Anecdotal evidence suggests the psychological toll of being on the front line may lead to an uptick in mental health disorders.

Implementing lowest use of measure concepts to supply chain can help offset COVID-19 costs

Avoiding bulk ordering in favor of smaller and more frequent shipments can save hundreds of thousands of dollars.

New standards will help advance medical device connectivity

Better interoperability between devices could result in the “silent ICU” in which alarms are not constantly going off by a patient’s bed.

Health plans have a consumer engagement problem, J.D. Powers finds

The overall satisfaction score for commercial health plans was 719 on a 1,000-point scale, among the lowest of all industries evaluated by J.D. Power.