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When assessing CFO candidates, hospitals today are seeking "true financial leaders" who can be strategic partners to the CEO. A CFO leader needn't be a visionary, but they do have to be a "vision enabler."
The offical transition to the ICD-10 coding set takes place next October (or so we hope). Many providers have already spent a good deal of money preparing for the inevitable, but even so, you need to make certain that select ICD-10 costs are included in your 2015 budget.
A new leader is taking the helm of the nation's oldest hospital, in a health system trying to bring emerging therapies and adapt new payment models.
As cardiovascular disease becomes a greater risk for both older and younger Americans, there may be new grounds for steering members away from traditional diagnostics.
"Isn't that covered by ObamaCare?" Public understanding of the Affordable Care Act has not been great, with a fair amount of confusion about key provisions and benefits detected by surveys.
Medical Properties Trust has signed a deal to acquire and lease back substantially all of the real estate assets of privately-held MEDIAN Kliniken Group, the largest private provider of post-acute and acute rehabilitation services in Germany.
The powerful California Nurses Association has put Ebola on the bargaining table in its negotiations for a new contract with Kaiser Permanente. The health system hasn't responded to all of the CNA's demands.
Significant inpatient pricing variation between hospitals in the state of Washington is "putting some consumers at financial risk," according to a recent study by the Washington Health Alliance. But the state's hospitals are questioning the report's conclusions, claiming that price variation should not be surprising.
Insurers that trace their ancestry back to the first days of American health insurance are now facing potentially existential challenges.
Trying to wean themselves off fee-for-service reimbursement, some health systems may be taking a non-committal strategy, dipping their toes in the water before deciding if they want to learn to swim. Insurers should be looking for more than that, if they can offer the right expertise.