Capital Finance
Stockholders gave a decisive thumbs down to a "golden parachute" package that would have compensated LifePoint's top four executives to the tune of $120 million total.
Black Book surveyed nearly 4,500 hospital and health system CFOs, Finance and RCM vice-presidents, others to come up the top performers.
But only 16 percent of insurance executives would invest the savings into innovation.
Eighteen transactions were recorded in the third quarter of 2018, a 38 percent decrease over the 29 deals recorded in the third quarter of 2017.
University of Michigan raised $5 billion, with more than $1.4 billion to be directed to advance patient care, research and education at Michigan Medicine.
Wraparound services potentially saved $8.2 million from 2011 to 2016, based on median hospitalization costs, the authors found.
Health data needs to be interoperable for the relationship between health systems and clinics to bridge the consumerism gap.
A chief finding was that patients using NIV at home with a high-touch care model have the lowest overall costs and hospitalization rates.
Reforms to the local coverage determination process will increase transparency and patient engagement to ensure beneficiaries can get the latest therapies and devices.
Each zone's initiative was tailored to the specific features of its communities, but the overall goals were to improve health outcomes and control costs.