Category: Healthcare Finance News

Camp fire ravaged Adventist Feather River system re-opens health center with ribbon cutting celebration

The health center is Adventist Feather River’s largest clinic and is one of the first businesses to return to Paradise. The system’s hospital remains closed.

CMS releases 2020 Medicare Advantage risk adjustment payment model

Model would reflect the number of conditions and add categories for mental health, substance use disorder, and chronic kidney disease.

CVS Health tells judge a monitor is not necessary during review of Aetna merger

Federal Judge Richard Leon suggested a monitor oversee CVS Health and Aetna to ensure the businesses were kept separate while the merger was under review.

Affordable Care Act enrollment surges in final week

Declining consumer numbers and a ruling in Texas striking down the ACA threatened to a relatively stable market this year.

New Affordable Care Act policies could drive down uninsured rate from 12 to 7.3 percent

There are a number of specific steps outlined in a new report that would drive the uninsured rate back down to an estimated 7.3 percent.

For New York hospitals, first-ever citywide nurse residency program will help retention, curb burnout

Program will support participating hospitals with implementing a year-long residency that bridges the gap between education and practice for newly-graduated nurses.

Orphan drug exclusivity resulting in on-market drug prices rising more slowly than common drugs

Adding an orphan indication to an on-market drug didn’t correlate with a higher-than-average price increase.

Blockchain in the revenue cycle: What healthcare needs to succeed

Stakeholder participation, real-time transparency and emerging use cases will likely help blockchain permeate healthcare over the next several years.

Cigna, Express Scripts merger to close Thursday

The integration of insurer and pharmacy benefit manager follows that of CVS Health and Aetna.

Pagosa Springs Medical Center settles with OCR over hospital’s failure to terminate former employee’s access to PHI

A complaint said a former PSMC employee continued to have remote access to PSMC’s web-based scheduling calendar even after separation of employment.