Category: Healthcare Finance News

Poll: Most healthcare consumers want feds to control costs, but partisan divides remain

The main concern among the political parties is slightly different, with Democrats more apt to desire reform that increased access to coverage.

Hospitals condemn CMS site neutral rule that would cut payments to off-campus clinics

Associations describe final rule as misconstrued, creating roadblocks and showing a lack of understanding about reality.

How to combat the ‘July effect’ to maintain care quality in a season with high hospital turnover

How to combat the ‘July effect’
EHRs and other technological solutions and clinical tools change providers’ minds resulting in better and more consistent care, expert says.

UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland expands services, caters to kid-friendly design with new outpatient center

The new outpatient center boasts clinic space, an expanded orthopedics department and new rehabilitation center as system sees wave of expansion plans.

Artificial intelligence can’t replace doctor’s gut instincts, MIT study says

AI no match for doctors’ gut instinct
Researchers found that doctor’s sentiment about patients still provides a dimension to decision making that machines cannot.

CMS proposes site neutral payment rule that would lower healthcare costs for patients

Final rule would also expand drug pricing competition to drive down costs and eliminate controversial questions regarding opioids from the hospital patient experience survey.

CMS to continue risk adjustment payments to insurers

Final rule issued today addresses the collection of risk adjustment charges and making $10 billion in payments for the 2017 benefit year.

GlaxoSmithKline CEO Emma Walmsley downplays public speculation about company breaking up

The reports come as GSK also aligned with 23andMe on drug development work.

Non-physician providers boost revenue, practice productivity, MGMA data shows

Practices with higher ratios of NPPs to physicians made more money, despite a rise in operating costs, data shows.

Rhode Island nurse strike causing influx of patients to other area hospitals

Hospital staff report safe conditions, but it remains unclear when the strike will end and what happens next.