MGMA, the Medical Group Management Association, held a meeting Monday to explain to physicians and others what public health emergency waivers stay and which ones go at the end of the PHE. Both the public health emergency and the national emergency, which were declared at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, end […]
Acute care hospitals that successfully participate in the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting program and are meaningful electronic health record users will get a proposed payment rate increase of 2.8% in 2024, under a proposed rule released Monday. This reflects a projected hospital market basket update of 3%, reduced by a projected 0.2 percentage point productivity […]
A new report examining the finances of 1,773 nonprofit hospitals in the U.S. finds that more than three quarters fall short on expected investments in their communities.
The Mayo Clinic’s decentralized clinical trial is moving forward with its strategy. Dr. Tufia Haddad, Becky Kottschade and Rebecca Heft talk about successes and challenges at their HIMSS23 presentation.
Private equity in healthcare saw its second highest year on record in 2022, closing on roughly $90 billion worth of deals, according to a report from consulting from Bain and Co. Despite a slowdown caused by macro-economic and geopolitical forces in the second half of the year, 2022 was still the second-best year on record […]