Under a final rule released today, impacted payers will be required to send prior authorization decisions within 72 hours for urgent requests and seven calendar days for standard requests.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is releasing data on the Acute Hospital Care at Home initiative through the Research and Data Assistance Center. ResDAC collected data from November 27, 2020, through March 30, 2023. As required for participation, hospitals agreed to report to CMS either weekly or monthly. 

Hospitals in the U.S. can begin to transition from financial stability to strategic growth after a month in which operating margins and other performance metrics improved, according to the newly released Flash Report from Kaufman Hall.

AI adds a capability to identify when interventions are necessary and to get an idea of the health and needs of a population, says Matt Cybulsky, founder of Ionian Healthcare Consulting.  

The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association is kick-starting an effort to reduce ethnic and racial disparities in maternity care in about 600 acute care and pediatric hospitals across the country.