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Michigan-based Metro Health has been able to set itself apart from other community hospital systems in part by its ability to access and leverage capital. Metro's success offers a template for best practices in capital acquisition through strategies such as public issuance of debts and securities.
Hospitals may have less control over readmissions than clinicians, administrators or federal regulators would like to believe, new research suggests, meaning that the readmissions penalties imposed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services may be inappropriate.
Hospitals are dependent on donations to help offset huge operating expenses. And in this turbulent time of rising costs and shrinking reimbursements, they need all the financial kindness they can get. That's why investing in philanthropy personnel is important.
Midwest managed care insurer Centene is on a roll. It beat Wall Street's first quarter expectations, increased membership and has its eyes on a new international venture.
Healthcare has a few things to do differently in the privacy and security arena -- one of them being: Start taking it seriously.
The first state to use Medicaid expansion funding for private exchange insurance has attracted well over half of all eligible beneficiaries, with a healthy mix in the risk pool.
Fears about public exchanges threatening established insurers may have been exaggerated, at least in the country's largest ACA marketplace.
To quickly make the transition from fee-for-service to value-based care, accountable care organizations must figure out where to invest and take cues from those which have mastered the model.
Leaders from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services think private insurers have been too slow to adopt payment reforms, but they would be best served by adopting value-based payment systems in tandem with CMS today.
With new reporting requirements from the Affordable Care Act and increasing scrutiny of community benefits programs, executives of hospitals are taking a more critical look at their programs to make sure they're on target and creating a solid financial strategy.