Even though M&A activity has slowed in recent quarters, health professionals don’t expect the slowdown to last.
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Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund will run out money in 7 years, trustees say
Part D drug spending projections are lower than last year because of slower price growth and a continuing trend of higher manufacturer rebates.
Short-term wellness programs having minimal impact on healthcare costs
Even the positive health effects observed in participating employees fell short of certain clinical measures of health.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services unveils five primary care payment model options
The Primary Care First payment model will provide payment to practices through a simplified total monthly payment to allow clinicians to focus on caring for patients rather than their revenue cycle, CMS says.
More hospitals outsourcing their billing, leading to boom in billing outsourcing market
Reasons for the jump include implementation of the ICD-10 coding system, increasing healthcare costs and EHRs.
CMS proposes $887 million increase for skilled nursing facilities
SNFs will be scored on a measure of potentially preventable hospital readmissions and on two new quality measures for interoperability.
The nation’s 15 top health systems, as ranked by IBM Watson Health
This year’s hospitals had better risk-adjusted outcomes, better patient satisfaction and a lower average cost per patient.
Blockchain prototype aims to speed revenue cycle transactions
The InstaMed blockchain prototype creates a shared patient account ledger accessible by the provider, payer and consumer.
Wording in medical student evaluations differ by gender and minority status, revealing potential bias
Evaluators often used personal descriptors to describe a student’s performance, and they used strikingly different words for men and for women.
Cerner and naviHealth launch EHR-agnostic tool to support BPCI Advanced participants
Health IT giant and convener expand partnership to help health systems with 2020 model for bundled payment reimbursement.
