Researchers from Censinet and KLAS Research aim at aligning healthcare cybersecurity collaboration through a new benchmarking study for 2023.
As 2022 comes to an end, Healthcare Finance News editors reflect on how much has changed over the past year and what that means for trends in 2023. The public health emergency is ongoing and will remain in place past January 11, 2023, putting the popularity of home health and telehealth in the balance.
UnitedHealthcare, the nation’s largest insurer, has lost its latest legal battle against provider group TeamHealth, with a three-judge arbitration panel in Florida ruling late last week that TeamHealth was owed $10.8 million due to underpayments from UHC from 2017 to 2020.
Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health have completed their merger after a delay in approval from The Illinois Health Facilities & Services Review Board.
New audits have raised the question: Are the feds being overbilled in their Medicare Advantage payments? I’m Jeff Lagasse with Healthcare Finance News, and we’ll take a closer look at that and other big news in this week’s Top Stories, including state AGs urging Apple to add new protections for reproductive health data, and Amazon […]
Freeing up clinician time is no easy task, but Geisinger’s move towards automation has cut down on the operational and administrative workload burden. Bots now do much of the mundane documentation and reporting work. It’s part of a strategic plan the Pennsylvania health system began pre-COVID-19, says Emily Fry, vice president of Innovation Operations at […]
Hospitals are nearing the end of the year with negative margins, with expenses, staff shortages, and fewer patient discharges driving poor performance, according to the latest National Hospital Flash Report from Kaufman Hall. Median operating margins are in the red for the tenth straight month, according to the report requested by the American Hospital […]
Nearly one out of every 10 Texas hospitals is at serious risk of closure, and nearly half of all Texas hospitals are facing negative operating margins this year, according to a new report released this week from Kaufman Hall. The culprit: COVID-19.
The No Surprises Act has reportedly done its job in preventing an estimated 9 million surprise medical bills since going into effect at the start of this year, but for providers, the law has created a revenue cycle and regulatory quagmire. Payment rates for out-of-network claims favor the insurer; the burden is on hospitals to […]