Operations
In the fourth quarter alone, HTA completed $32.7 million of investments in the Dallas area, $80.2 million in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Long Beach, California, and one development project in Raleigh, North Carolina.
The Missouri-based health system will expand with more than 30 new co-branded facilities containing with smart glass rooms, transparent charting, mobile x-ray equipment.
The provider and insurer forged a multi-year partnership to serve United and Medicare Advantage members in southwest Ohio.
CFOs rank identifying cost reduction opportunities as their most important for the year ahead, though most expressed limited confidence in their organization's ability to do so, survey says.
The most important developments hospital finance and operations executives should understand heading into 2018.
Health insurers benefit from lower corporate taxes but repealing the individual mandate will spike uncompensated care costs and stick hospitals with tighter operating margins, less cash flow.
These pros are looking at the year ahead, spotting several trends they think will shape the healthcare landscape.
Mayo Clinic said it gave union multiple warnings that if there was a strike, the minimum contract for temporary fill-in workers would mean a lock-out.
Insurer follows move by Aetna and CVS to elbow into provider space, better manage population health and lower costs with its Kindred acquisition.
The application platform combines the features of data warehousing, clinical data repositories and health information exchanges and is expected to save on costs.