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Healthcare Finance provides timely and in-depth coverage of the challenges faced by healthcare providers and payers in light of skyrocketing healthcare costs, regulatory developments and diminishing reimbursements. Helmed by an experienced team of independent editors and journalists, we deliver news, analysis, educational content to an audience of senior healthcare financial managers and ...
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Insurers and government payers are having to make major adjustments as well. This section highlights Healthcare Finance’s coverage on topics including benefit design, Medicare and Medicaid, risk management, payer contracting, analytics, compliance, insurance exchanges, provider-sponsored health plans and merger and acquisition activity among ...
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Elevance latest insurer to sue over Medicare Advantage star ratings. Star ratings represent billions of dollars in quality bonus payments. CMS has cost Elevance ... Read more >>. Nov 06 | Jeff Lagasse. $47.5 million grant allows Rutgers to turn lab discoveries into practical healthcare. Rutgers will use the grant to create interventions ranging ...
Hospitals confront mounting reimbursement challenges and …
Nov 30, 2023 · Escalating reimbursement delays and declining cash reserves are placing hospitals and health systems across the nation in a precarious financial predicament, according to data from Syntellis Performance Solutions' analysis of 1,300 hospitals.. The findings, published in partnership with the American Hospital Association, underscore the pressing need for measures aimed at alleviating financial ...
Home health agencies get half a percent pay increase
Nov 5, 2024 · Providers have gotten a nearly 9% permanent cut to home health payment since 2023, says LeadingAge. Home Health agencies get a 0.5% payment increase in the 2025 Home Health Prospective Payment System final rule. CMS estimates that Medicare payments to home health agencies in 2025 would increase in the aggregate by 0.5%, or $85 million, compared ...
Payers could see 7% spike in healthcare costs in 2024
Jul 5, 2023 · Jeff Lagasse, Editor. Photo: Martin Barraud/Getty Images. Healthcare costs are expected to increase as much as 7% in 2024 due to continued labor shortages, drug price increases and new contracts between payers and providers –which represents a larger jump in costs than in either of the previous two years. According to a new PwC report, the ...
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News. Oct 12, 2011 |. PHI releases first direct-care workforce state data center. The Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute (PHI), a national nonprofit working to improve America's ... Read more >>. HIMSS Media. Events. Solutions.
Financial challenges spurring healthcare merger and acquisition ...
Oct 16, 2023 · Hospitals and health systems have been under extreme financial pressure since 2022, when median operating margins remained in negative territory for the full year. And while the picture has improved somewhat this year, these challenges spurred about a third of the hospital and health system merger and acquisition activity in the third quarter.
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Bill would give physicians a pay increase, block Medicare cuts. Congress must enact permanent reform instead of making last-minute payment fixes each year, says MGMA. Hurricane Helene resulted in a $7M loss of revenue and response effort expenses. According to the AMA, this has undercut fair payment for out-of-network healthcare services and ...
Hospital, health system leaders address continued cost pressures
Aug 9, 2024 · With administrative tasks costing the U.S. healthcare system $60 billion dollars each year, AI has great potential to save time and lower costs, but the risk an AI model introduces compared to an individual's impact is exponential, authors said. Brian Foy, chief product officer at Q-Centrix, anticipates that many leaders within the hospital ...