The average pay for doctors declined 2.4% in 2022, coming at a time when U.S. healthcare workers are facing significant challenges, including economic strains, a growing physician shortage and high rates of work-related burnout.
Stesha Selsky and Meg Furukawa, nurse informaticists for the UCLA Health System, preview their talk at HIMSS23 explaining how algorithms can use patient data to distribute the nursing workload.
Interest expense will rise 20% for most low-rated healthcare companies in 2023 and the metrics would further weaken if rates continue to rise, according to a new report by Moody’s Investors Service.
The recent Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposed Interoperability and Patient Access proposed rule is designed to provide patients with easier, more useful access to their health information, according to Drew Ivan, chief strategy officer at Lyniate.
A number of healthcare organizations, including AHIP and the American Benefits Council, have banded together to criticize legal challenges to the No Surprises Act, the 2020 law that aimed to take patients out of billing conflicts between providers and payers.
Two U.S. military health IT experts talk about natural language processing, which digests countless healthcare documents to assist them in job efficiency.
The Department of Justice and states of Minnesota and New York have dropped their appeal of the $13.8 billion merger between Optum and Change Healthcare, according to a filing Monday in the District of Columbia Circuit Court. The plaintiffs asked for the case to be voluntarily dismissed, giving no reason for the request.
An aging physician workforce means many healthcare professionals are considering retirement. But physicians have different reasons for retirement, and different expectations, then their administrators, found a new survey from Jackson Physician Search.
Highmark Health has announced consolidated financial results for the 2022 fiscal year, reporting $26 billion in revenue, an operating gain of $440 million and a net loss of $346 million. Without factoring in the impact of unrealized investments, HIghmark reported net earnings of roughly $47 million for the year, an 18% year-over-year leap.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued revised guidance for the independent dispute resolution (IDR) process that is part of the No Surprises Act implementation.