Category: Modern Healthcare

Cleveland Clinic, the second largest employer in Ohio, reports that it boosted Ohio’s economy by $17.8 billion in 2016, according to the system’s latest economic impact report, which it produces every three years.

Ascension Health took on heavy expenses in fiscal 2018 as it works to standardize its revenue cycle systemwide. The Catholic, not-for-profit health system has a 10-year contract to use Chicago-based R1 RCM as its sole revenue-cycle provider.

Efforts to reduce physician burnout may need to begin during residency, one of two studies published Tuesday in JAMA indicates.

The AHA’s new initiative is meant to better inform both policymakers and the public about the 340B program and how hospitals use the savings they generate from it.

After two years of gaining physicians, Hawaii lost 51 full-time doctors in 2017. The state has about 2,900 full-time doctors, approximately 800 doctors short of the number needed across all specialties.

The Senate’s health committee is questioning the government’s role in helping patients understand what they should pay for their healthcare — and whether Congress can change the incentives in a complex system that doesn’t encourage shopping.

The CMS warned that Aurora Chicago Lakeshore Hospital, one of largest psychiatric hospitals in the city, is not adequately protecting suicidal patients from harming themselves and could lose its Medicare billing privileges.

Nurses at the University of Michigan voted in favor of a three-day work stoppage to protest “ongoing and continuous violations of their workplace rights” after their contracts expired June 30.

The Senate passed its opioids legislation, laying the groundwork for a final bicameral deal. The upper chamber also cleared a stand-alone healthcare bill to target insurer gag clauses on pharmacists.

A Senate proposal would take aim at hospital balance billing—a practice that has caused sticker-shock reverberations across the country and sparked increasing public outcry.