Strategic Planning

Two months after the implementation of ICD-10, revenue cycle experts say their world didn't collapse but not enough time has elapsed to declare the smooth rollout a victory.

The growth of specialty drugs, and the pressures pharma mergers place on supply chain operations are just a few trends experts at McKesson Pharmacy Optimization expect to shape hospital pharmacy operations in 2016, according to a new report.

San Francisco-based Dignity Health has announced it will limit its investments in thermal coal companies, focusing instead on sustainability and investment opportunities that address climate change.

The offering is made after TeamHealth rebuffed AmSurg's acquisition attempt.

The facility is slated to be renamed the Krispy Kreme Challenge Children's Specialty Clinic, but criticism from the medical community at the University of North Carolina and elsewhere is making the health care system rethink that choice.

Poor communication is costing the major healthcare organizations about $12 million annually nationwide, according to Spok.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Development's Distance Learning and Telemedicine Program will add $23.4 million in additional funding for 75 new projects in 31 states, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said.

Nearly three-quarters of health systems with more than 300 beds -- and 81 percent of providers with fewer than 300 beds -- are shifting their focus to IT outsourcing as bottom-line pressures force systems to choose outside vendors, according to a new Black Book Research survey of hospital finance and tech administrators.

This year, Healthcare Finance is asking its audience of healthcare finance decision-makers to help us rank the top issues with its inaugural, "Year that was, year that will be" survey.

A selloff of UnitedHealth Group stock on Friday pushed other major healthcare stocks lower following the insurer's warning that it may exit the Obamacare marketplace exchange business.