Strategic Planning
Yates is taking a stab at predicting how certain trends and events will play out over the coming year.
$950 million divestiture is ahead of Walgreens Boots Alliance acquisition of Rite Aid.
Northwell Health's massive rebranding campaign leads off, followed by how population health and workforce management can help systems cut costs.
Department of Justice ends antitrust waiting period, clearing the way for McKesson and Change to create a new healthcare IT company.
Top stories include Houston Methodist lifting margins, and outsourcing revenue cycle operations.
Rule establishes bundled payments for cardiac and orthopedic care, small-practice ACOs.
Overdoses kill 90 people in the United States each day; opioid poisonings cost more than $20 billion in emergency departments, hospital care.
Hospitals say they fear violating government decree that hospitals can't "specify or otherwise limit" patient's choice, but are not prohibited from advising on quality of facilities.
The group is pressing CMS to make 2018 another transition year, more cybersecurity incentives and to streamline multiple Meaningful Use programs.
Affordable Care Act's fate is coming into question as healthcare organizations move into the new world of value-based care and other advances.