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When managing the hospital chargemaster, working smarter trumps working harder. And the results? Compare an hour with a shovel to one with a backhoe.
Thomas R. Green, CEO of Columbus, Ohio-based investment firm Lancaster Pollard recently discussed financing capital projects with Healthcare Finance News Editor René Letourneau.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a proposed rule on July 3 that most medical devices distributed in the United States carry a unique device identifier (UDI).
There are market forces keeping the healthcare mergers and acquisitions market active but not frenetic, according to analysts at a panel called “Financing The Deal” at the Nashville Health Care Council on May 15.
Although summer movies highlight the deeds of solo superheroes, attacking hospital supply costs is strictly a team effort. At the Premier Breakthroughs conference in Nashville on June 6, representatives from Methodist Health System in Dallas, Texas, chronicled their 18-month collaboration with Premier Consulting Solutions – a partnership that helped significantly reduce supply costs and keep them there.
Highmark, Western Pennsylvania's largest health insurer, took another step toward building a comprehensive provider network in the region with the announcement in June of a $275 million commitment to Jefferson Regional Medical Center.
While many private payers across the country have rushed to launch payment initiatives wrapped around healthcare delivery models like ACOs and patient-centered medical homes (PCMH), Washington-based Premera Blue Cross has found success via its unique payment model it calls Global Outcomes Contracting.
A lawsuit filed July 3 by roughly 50 doctors and a number of California medical groups including the Los Angeles County Medical Association and the California Medical Association accuses health insurer Aetna of regularly and systematically threatening doctors within its network with having their contracts with Aetna terminated for making out-of-network referrals.
Even as some governors vow to bow out of expanding their Medicaid programs in the wake of the Supreme Court upholding the Affordable Care Act, WellPoint Inc. announced July 9 it will acquire managed care company Amerigroup for $92 per share or roughly $4.9 billion.
Fifteen years after the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA) directed the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to implement intermediate sanctions for noncompliant home health agencies (HHAs), the federal agency has finally complied.