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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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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 ...
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 ...
For Payers - Healthcare Finance News
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 ...
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.
Healthcare organizations increasing IT investments
Sep 14, 2023 · Technology and IT has emerged as an important strategic priority for healthcare institutions, with a new Bain and Company report showing that providers are increasingly accelerating their spending on IT and software. Nearly 80% of healthcare executive respondents in the new survey increased spending materially over the past year, spurred by emerging technologies, labor shortages and cost ...
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 ...
Outlook strong for healthcare services deals, PwC finds
Jun 22, 2023 · Jeff Lagasse, Editor. Photo: Helen King/Getty Images. Coming off strong years for healthcare services deals in 2021 and 2022, volumes have remained resilient through May, despite multiple headwinds, including higher interest rates, increased antitrust regulatory review concerns, elevated valuations and general fears about the recession.
Mergers & Acquisitions - Healthcare Finance News
Nov 1, 2024 · Gaining Actionable Insight into Financial Systems and Areas Impacting the Revenue Cycle. Hospital systems across the country are looking to streamline their billing and collection processes to become more efficient and better compete in their markets. The challenge many face is how to turn the data that's already flowing through financial ...