Category: Modern Healthcare

Eric Evans, Tenet Healthcare Corp.’s president of hospital operations, is leaving the hospital chain at the end of the year. His position will be eliminated.

Reinsurance programs have successfully stabilized individual insurance premiums and boosted enrollment in Alaska, Minnesota and Oregon, but the programs have been less effective at attracting more insurers to sell individual plans in those states.

America’s Essential Hosptials unveiled an online library where providers can access tools to discuss cost of care challenges for patients.

Amazon Web Services launched a new service that pulls key information from unstructured electronic health record data, giving access to what often remains hidden in notes.

The CMS has launched a new tool to make it easier for consumers to know their out-of-pocket costs for surgery.

HHS’ Office of Inspector General has proposed changing the wage index in a new report that found the current system has led to millions in improper hospital payments, often acutely impacting rural providers.

Ascension plans to become the sole owner of a hurricane-damaged hospital it operates through a joint venture with Ardent Health Services through its member, Ascension Sacred Heart Health System.

CMS Administrator Seema Verma wants to reassure individual market enrollees that they won’t lose access to care if a federal judge in Texas strikes down the Affordable Care Act.

Virginia has submitted its proposed work requirement plan for some Medicaid recipients to the federal government for approval.

Iowa saved $126 million this year from privatizing its Medicaid system, barely half what former Gov. Terry Branstad projected when he forced the change in 2016.