The financial issues hospitals began to face at the start of the pandemic aren’t going away anytime soon, according to managing editors of Alvarez & Marsal, who advise healthcare executives on the best ways to move forward. The pandemic exposed the stresses in the supply chain, of staffing and of establishing safety net issues, said Managing […]

Tenet Healthcare, a 61-hospital health system based in Dallas, said it expects to exceed the midpoint of its latest FY22 Adjusted EBITDA outlook range included in its third quarter 2022 earnings release. The system also announced key leadership updates meant to support long-term business performance.

The State of California is suing pharmaceutical manufacturers. Why are they doing it? We’ll examine the answers to that and more in this week’s Top Stories, including GE Healthcare’s agreement to but French company IMPACTIS, and SickKids’ recent ransomware scare. For more news and features from Jeff Lagasse, visit Healthcare Finance News. In this episode:

Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and U.S. Surgeon General Vice Admiral Vivek H. Murthy recently convened an in-person roundtable discussion on reforming prior authorization in federally-sponsored healthcare programs, at which providers pressed CMS to finalize the reforms to alleviate administrative burdens.

Risk-based contracts let providers consider the whole individual, rather than focus on billing for services, according to Jaja Okigwe, First Choice Health CEO.

Hospital at home for acute care became one of the lifeline programs for health systems during COVID-19, for providers that had the capacity and resources to take advantage of public health emergency waiver.  Hospital at home programs for primary care are more rare and require a combination of factors to be successful for patients and […]

The mental health crisis in the U.S.

Almost 25% of inpatient admissions in 2018 experienced at least one adverse event while 7% experienced a preventable adverse event, according to new data published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The analysis, which looked at about 2,800 admissions across 11 hospitals, found 978 adverse events, many of them serious, and a small percentage […]

Jefferson Health in Philadelphia is reorganizing, in a move that reportedly includes layoffs. Jefferson Health is modifying its operating structure from five divisions to three “regions” – North, Central and East, according to a hospital spokesperson.  The move is being made to further enhance the health system’s clinical integration, he said. 

Rita Bowen, MRO vice president and board member for the Sequoia Project, discusses the need to harmonize HIPAA with interoperability, third-party compliance and the privacy of very personal data.