Reimbursement
Because there’s such a high level of uncertainty, the risk of a more severe economic impact is elevated and expenses will rise.
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Revenue Cycle Management
Understanding contract loopholes, and being self-advocates during negotiations, can help community hospitals increase their collections.
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Strategic Planning
In Orlando, health IT professionals will get an update on what FHIR currently can and can’t do – and what to expect from it going forward.
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Capital Finance
Faster internet speeds, better tech and avoiding other potentially sick patients is pushing investors to pump money into the remote-care space.
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Supply Chain
The Department of Defense is releasing up to 2,000 ventilators and is making available up to 5 million N95 face masks from reserves.
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Budgeting
With a labor-intensive budgeting process that provided little business value, OSF Healthcare decided it was time to be more flexible.
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Quality and Safety
Physician are frustrated at not having what they need and concerned that they could have been exposed and are infecting patients without knowing it.
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Billing and Collections
The average potential surprise bill ranged from $86 for medical imaging specialists to more than $8,000 for surgical assistants.
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Claims Processing
Insurer will cover rapid and ultra-rapid whole genome sequencing done by Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine.
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Operations
While not all insurers may be aware of it, prior authorizations can have detrimental downstream financial effects for hospitals and health systems.
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Medical Devices
The custom sensor would measure information from the body beyond heart rate, report says.
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Compliance & Legal
Francisco Patino was allegedly portrayed as a legitimate doctor through the publication of a diet book and plan described as the “next Atkins.”
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Policy and Legislation
It’s granting exceptions and extensions from reporting requirements for clinicians and providers participating in Medicare programs such as MIPS and Shared Savings Program ACOs.
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Community Benefit
The nonprofit health system has sponsored numerous programs and services that help address social determinants of health.
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Accountable Care
Lack of information on key financing aspects is preventing ACOs from signing on, says NAACOS president.
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Acute Care
There was a 2% drop in ICU deaths at non-minority hospitals, but the same improvement rate was not seen at minority-serving hospitals.
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Ambulatory Care
The institutions that were studied added more than $562 billion in value to the nation’s economy in 2017, including direct and indirect economic impact.
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Analytics
At HIMSS20, one physician association will show how data-driven care management, with prompt patient outreach, helped decrease ED use by 8%.
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Business Intelligence
Report analyzed more than 1.8 billion commercial healthcare claims and data visualization to benchmark prices and use across 112 metropolitan areas from 2012 to 2016.
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ICD-10 & Coding
Doctors need to carefully and properly use the HCC codes, which indicate the expected costs for a patient.
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Meaningful Use
Administrator Seema Verma said changes to the program eliminate 25 measures and saves hospitals over 2 million hours of work and $75 million.
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Medicare & Medicaid
Healthcare providers should encourage patients to remain home unless there is an emergency to protect others and limit their exposure.
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Patient Engagement
At the same time, 64% say they could not afford to pay out their full annual deductible if hospitalized for treatment of the coronavirus.
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Pharmacy
Optum Ventures is among companies investing $25 million, betting on the company’s ability to show for which patients Humira doesn’t work.
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Population Health
Epidemiologists have identified those with chronic medical conditions as one of the key groups at risk of poor outcomes from the coronavirus.
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Risk Management
IT security is a legacy word, says Brian Selfridge: “This isn’t cybersecurity, this is risk.”
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Telehealth
Paradise Medical Group is running a virtual practice as the federal government has announced expanded access to telehealth services.
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