Strategic Planning
Collect financial information upfront, fight insurance denials, and send a combined bill from hospital and physician among advice for hospital finance staff.
A few academic medical centers, physician networks and health plans are thinking differently about venture capital by coming up with new ways to spark healthcare entrepreneurship.
With the addition of SSM, the network will now include 45 hospitals, 555 clinics and about 5,700 other participating healthcare providers.
After a fractious price battle with Blue Shield, Sutter Health is offering more patients a direct option through its own health plan.
Theranos technology can take a drop of blood from the finger and screen for a spectrum of conditions and diseases at half the price of Medicare.
The acquisition includes existing therapy provider TheraTrust and a corporate office located in Ohio that will be maintained as a regional headquarters.
Under current conditions, operating loss for the five hospitals studied would be $190 million in 2019, according to Navigant Consulting.
Result of King vs. Burwell will not end the health law, says Anil Joseph, managing director for the Investment Research Group at GE Capital, Healthcare Financial Services.
Inpatient admissions increased 2.4 percent year-over-year across Tenet's 80 hospitals and 200 outpatient sites.
Suit claims that the SEIU tried to thwart the $843 million acquisition agreement with Prime Healthcare Services, by conspiring with rival takeover bidder Blue Wolf Capital Partners.