Ascension’s restructuring highlights the balance health systems must strike in maintaining core operations and expanding new ventures.
Category: Modern Healthcare
Q&A: Geisinger executives talk healthcare affordability
Geisigner Health System is pushing some innovative approaches to care delivery, including offering refunds to patients dissatisfied with their experience. Interim CEO Dr. Jaewon Ryu and Chief Innovation Officer Karen Murphy talk about what’s ahead…
IRS guidance on excise tax for executive pay leaves questions for hospitals
New Internal Revenue Service interim guidance aims to help hospitals determine how a new 21% excise tax on executive compensation will affect them, and the news isn’t all positive.
Cost savings, disruption threat pushing more providers into home dialysis
Home dialysis adoption has so far been slow, but financial incentives and the threat of disruption might be pushing dialysis providers to up their game.
Commentary: For more successful health policy and outcomes, think like a human
As we continue to grapple with ways to improve health outcomes, let’s reignite this most personal part of healthcare and bring medicine back to its origins as the practice of human beings helping each other heal.
Week Ahead: Senate, House committees set sights on Big Pharma
Buckle up, Big Pharma, it’s going to be a bumpy ride in Congress this year. Senate Finance Committee Chair Chuck Grassley will gavel in the first of a series of hearings on soaring drug prices.
Coalition tackling diagnostic errors gains some traction
Diagnostic errors are getting more attention. A coalition hopes to reduce the prevalence and cost of those errors through awareness and education.
Data Points: The impact of concussions
As more studies find longer-term consequences for even a mild concussion, including a heightened risk of suicide, the impact on sports continues to unfold.
New lab fee schedule may overbill Medicare, Grassley warns
The Senate Finance chairman wants HHS to make sure Medicare isn’t getting overbilled for lab tests after a government watchdog report flagged potential problems in the new fee schedule.
HCA, Tenet upsize debt offerings to $1.5 billion
HCA and Tenet Healthcare Corp. both recently upped their debt offerings to $1.5 billion. HCA says it will use the proceeds for general purposes, while Tenet is refinancing existing debt.
