Medicare Advantage patients account for fewer avoidable hospitalizations. Here's why
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
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Post-ACA hospital readmission gains evaporate when accounting for observation stays, study finds
Fierce Healthcare
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
Post-ACA hospital readmission gains evaporate when accounting for observation stays, study finds. Mon, 11/28/2022 - 14:46.
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Charity care accounts for less than 1.4% of operating expenses at half of US hospitals, KFF finds
Fierce Healthcare
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
Charity care accounts for less than 1.4% of operating expenses at half of US hospitals, KFF finds. Mon, 11/07/2022 - 17:05.
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80% of nonprofit hospitals' community investments lag their tax savings, Lown Institute finds
Fierce Healthcare
MARCH 25, 2024
Four in five nonprofit hospitals are spending less on community benefit areas like financial assistance than what they are estimated to receive in tax breaks, according to the latest annual report | Even after accounting for discounted care and community benefit investments, the money 2,425 nonprofit hospitals saved through tax breaks in 2021 would (..)
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Hospitals have low level of accountability for connected device breaches
Health Care Dive
AUGUST 4, 2022
Of the 43% of organizations that reported a data breach in the past two years, 88% said at least one connected device was a contributing factor to the breach, according to a new report.
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Children’s Hospital LA launches AI-driven ER patient app
Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles has partnered with Vital to integrate an artificial intelligence-driven tool called ERAdvisor that can improve the patient-family experience with clarity and predictability. Vital said it offers four AI tools to serve hospital emergency departments, inpatient stays and ongoing care.
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KLAS: State of Small-Hospital Patient Accounting 2023
HIT Consultant
MARCH 16, 2023
What You Should Know: – Small hospitals are changing their EMRs and patient accounting systems at a greater rate than that of their large-hospital counterparts. Most market selection energy is going to Oracle Health (Cerner), MEDITECH, and Epic; small hospitals also use other vendors like athenahealth, CPSI, and MEDHOST.
ACOs led by independent physicians save Medicare ‘substantially’ more money, CBO says
Health Care Dive
APRIL 17, 2024
Independent practices have clearer financial incentives to lower medical spending than hospitals participating in accountable care organizations, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
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U.S. Hospitals Will Lose $323 Billion in 2020 – Before Accounting for Growing COVID Cases
Health Populi
JULY 1, 2020
health systems are projected to lose $323 billion in 2020 due to declining inpatient and outpatient volumes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on the “normal” hospital business. Hospitals racked up over $200 bn in losses between March and June 2020. declines in expected inpatient volume and 34.5%
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NYC Health + Hospitals keeps patients out of ER with virtual urgent care
Healthcare It News
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
NYC Health + Hospitals is the largest safety net health system in the United States, serving more than one million patients annually, including the most vulnerable New Yorkers. In order to launch this service, NYC Health + Hospitals needed a telehealth platform that could flexibly support audio and video modalities. THE PROBLEM.
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Thinking Ahead on the AHEAD Model: Hospital Global Budgets
NASHP
APRIL 29, 2024
As states assess their interest and readiness to pursue the model, there are important considerations relating to meeting the requirements of the application (see NASHP’s AHEAD Model Application Assistance Tool ) and strategic planning for implementation relating to hospital global budgets.
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Care coordination: What's needed to succeed with accountable care and home health?
Healthcare It News
MARCH 4, 2022
Patients are increasingly opting to recover in the home instead of a hospital or rehab facility, which requires care coordination. For example, one study of patients discharged from the hospital with a home health referral showed that 46% did not receive home health services within 14 days of discharge. This is hard to do.
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Interoperability: How Hospitals Share Healthcare Data Can Cost Lives, We Can All Do Better
HIT Consultant
APRIL 22, 2024
Since 1996, when the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) became law, there have been good advances in patient data interoperability, but as a whole, the industry has not embraced them. Hospitals and healthcare systems can do better. Sharing data through faxing and CDs is still very common.
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Misplaced Skepticism on Accountability for War Crimes Against Health Care in Ukraine
Bill Of Health
MAY 4, 2022
Russian attacks on hospitals, ambulances, and health workers in Ukraine — including more than 180 attacks confirmed b y the World Health Organization, and double that number reported by the Ministry of Health — have gained global attention. Accountability for these crimes must be pursued. By Leonard Rubenstein.
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How accountability helped PIH Good Samaritan Hospital reach a 4,500% ROI increase
nThrive
DECEMBER 9, 2021
One such client, Rewa Cooper, IDS Administrative Director of Patient Access at PIH Health Good Samaritan Hospital, joined Lucas Lerma, nThrive’s Senior Adoption Success Consultant, for a conversation about CarePricer®, nThrive’s payment estimation solution.
Accountable Care Organizations Are Diving Head First Into Home-Based Care
Home Health Care
MAY 15, 2022
Accountable care organizations (ACOs) have considerably increased their home-based care arsenals over recent years. That’s according to the Institute for Accountable Care (IAC), which conducted a wide-ranging study on ACOs and home-based care that was released Thursday. Source: Institute for Accountable Care.
Health Data Privacy: Majority of Patients Demand Accountability, Transparency
HIT Consultant
JULY 28, 2022
– Patients are most comfortable with physicians and hospitals having access to personal health data, and least comfortable with social media sites, employers and technology companies having access to the same data.
Patient portal opens new entry points to care at Lurie Children's Hospital
Healthcare It News
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago had only two entry points for patients looking to receive care – calling the centralized access center or walking into the emergency room. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. 91% of patients have logged into their portal account within three months of an encounter.
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Pandemic relief funds were unevenly distributed, didn't account for community burden: Health Affairs
Health Care Dive
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
Researchers analyzed HHS data on the Provider Relief Fund and found hospitals serving fewer patients with employer-sponsored insurance received less funding.
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Payers' increasing claims denials, delays 'wreaking havoc' on provider revenue cycles
Fierce Healthcare
DECEMBER 13, 2023
A jump in claim delays and denials is “wreaking havoc on providers’ revenue cycle performance” and contributing to health systems’ “volatile” accounts receivable and diminishing cash reserves, acco | More frequent pushback from commercial and Medicare Advantage payers is complicating patient self-pay collections and, ultimately, undermining the revenues (..)
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Tenet Healthcare's Q1 volumes, ASC additions, divestment proceeds are music to investors' ears
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 30, 2024
Despite his company’s recent flurry of hospital divestitures, Tenet He | A $215 million increase to FY24 guidance announced Tuesday doesn't take into account Tenet's above-expectations organic growth during the first quarter, which fueled a nearly 7% year-over-year increase in net operating revenues.
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CMS’ Acute Hospital Care At Home Waiver Delivers Promising Results
Home Health Care
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
Since the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) launched the Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, patient outcomes have been encouraging. of patients that were being treated in the home were transferred to the hospital, according to a recent study published by JAMA. As of Nov.
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People with Chronic Medical Conditions Continue to Account for The Majority of Flu Hospitalizations This Season
Briggs Healthcare
JANUARY 26, 2024
January 26, 2024 – Today CDC posted new data that show the proportion of people hospitalized with flu this season in one CDC surveillance system who also have at least one chronic medical condition. Overall, among people hospitalized with flu, about 90% had a least one chronic medical condition. This is consistent with historical data.
The future of technology can make your hospital a model of care and efficiency
Healthcare It News
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
By Martin Jones Current and emerging medtech change how hospitals, clinics, and medical practices deliver care. Increase staff and operational efficiency Real-time location solutions (RTLS) and cloud-based systems support various productivity and efficiency goals in hospitals and medical practices.
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Outpatient facilities targeted for cyberattacks nearly as often as hospitals, data shows
Health Care Dive
AUGUST 27, 2021
Business associates such as claims processors are also a prime target for hackers, and now account for 43% of all healthcare breaches, according to the report from Critical Insight.
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New Data Added to NASHP’s Hospital Cost Tool
NASHP
JANUARY 8, 2024
Updated Tool Offers Policymakers Valuable Data Spanning 12 Years and Over 4,600 Hospitals The National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) released an update to its Hospital Cost Tool to include 2022 data and new metrics on hospital labor expenses.
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Are hospital quality metrics causal?
Healthcare ECONOMIST
DECEMBER 19, 2023
2023 found that Johns Hopkins Hospital had to report 162 unique quality metrics, and the cost for collecting these data were over $5.6m 2023) aim to test whether hospital quality metrics meet these two criteria. 2023) aim to test whether hospital quality metrics meet these two criteria. Saraswathula et al. dollars ($5.0m
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Remote Care Management Program Leads To 50% Reduction In Hospital Readmission Rates For Cardiac Patients
Home Health Care
MARCH 4, 2024
Cardiac Solutions — a physician-owned care provider that specializes in cardiac health services — achieved a 50% reduction in hospital cardiovascular readmission rates. You saw a level of engagement built around increased awareness from tracking and increased accountability.” Cardiac Solutions examined 26,689 patients.
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Rural Emergency Hospitals: Model Legislation and Considerations for States
NASHP
AUGUST 30, 2023
To view the model act, visit Model Rural Emergency Hospital Act. Congress established a Rural Emergency Hospital (REH) Designation as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 for certain hospitals that meet requirements set out in 42 U.S.C. REHs also may be independent or owned by a hospital system.
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Diabetes WA reports hack and more briefs
Healthcare It News
APRIL 5, 2024
They can also view the COVID-19 results and some NHI details of their children whose accounts are linked to theirs. SA endoscopic hospital digitises patient pathway Northern and Southern Endoscopy, South Australia's first standalone endoscopic day hospital, has recently digitised its patient pathways with Personify Care.
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Equitable and Ethical Access to Care: The Case of Pre-Hospital Blood Administration
Bill Of Health
JUNE 29, 2023
By Stephen Wood The State of Massachusetts is currently reviewing a new protocol for the pre-hospital (i.e., In the pre-hospital setting, hemorrhagic shock, which is characterized by rapid blood loss that results in potentially fatal oxygen depletion of the vital organs, is traditionally managed by the administration of intravenous fluids.
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The Facts on NASHP’s Hospital Cost Tool
NASHP
JUNE 13, 2023
The National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) is pleased that researchers at Rice University, state officials, employers, and many others are using the data from NASHP’s Hospital Cost Tool to further explore policy questions related to health care expenditures. investments, COVID-19 relief funds, etc.)
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Managing a safe transition to new treatment guidelines
Healthcare It News
APRIL 22, 2024
The private Sydney Adventist Hospital (the San) in Sydney's north is an early adopter of the NSW Cancer Institute's guideline for anticancer drug dosing in kidney dysfunction (ADDIKD). Cloud-based technology has enabled one healthcare provider's swift transition to a new cancer treatment guideline.
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SNFs Retook Higher Hospital Discharge Share Than HHAs In Early 2022
Home Health Care
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
After the public health emergency was declared in March of 2020, hospital discharges bottomed out the following month. The analysis took into account Medicare fee-for-service patients from January 2019 to February 2022, and paid through March 2022. This is according to a new data analysis conducted by the Washington, D.C.-based
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How much do structural factors explain variation in hospital cost
Healthcare ECONOMIST
APRIL 27, 2023
Hospital admissions are typically paid largely based on DRGs. DRGs account for the type of admission (e.g., However, should hospital structural factures be incorporated into reimbursement? The authors econometric strategy is to examine the impact of various hospital characteristics on average case-mix adjusted hospital costs.
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Majority of teen patient portals accessed by guardians, raising privacy concerns
Healthcare It News
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
A study published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association Network Open found that more than half of adolescent patient portal accounts with outbound messages were accessed by guardians. All three institutions allow adolescents to have their own MyChart accounts through the Epic EHR. WHY IT MATTERS.
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Why Hospitals with Nearby Home Health Agencies Have Higher Readmission Rates
Home Health Care
JULY 5, 2022
A new study from researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center found that hospitals with a greater local supply of home health agencies were associated with increased readmissions. Hospital readmissions are regularly viewed as an indicator of the quality of care patients receive.
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Lessons from the hospital readmissions reduction program
Healthcare ECONOMIST
APRIL 25, 2023
2023) argues that the hospital readmissions reduction program has been a disappointment. “If One reason for this is that the increasing use of observation hospitalizations is distorting the HRRP metrics. Being hospitalized “under observation” means that patient’s stay is covered under Medicare Part B (vs.
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How AI is Changing the Conversation Around Hospital Denials – and Improving Financial Implications in the Process
HIT Consultant
JANUARY 9, 2024
Solving for misalignment between payers and providers When focusing on the hospital and acute care implications, CMS transparency data showed that 25% of all hospital claim denials were related to medical necessity and accounted for 30% of all denial write-offs, resulting in significant losses for care already provided.
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Innovation For Hospitals Implant Management
Vie Healthcare
JUNE 28, 2022
Hospitals spend between 55% to 65% of their expense on implants and management. For instance, these expenses can be found in the catheterization lab, the Operating room , and the Women’s Center, among many other departments in a hospital. Hospitals will have to ensure that they’re creating a PL to their contract pricing.
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How Private Equity Firms Raided Safety Net Hospitals, Leading to Closures, Layoffs
HIT Consultant
JULY 21, 2023
What You Should Know: – A new investigation by the Private Equity Stakeholder Project (PESP) reveals, for the first time, private equity (PE) investors were behind a safety net hospital closure in the Chicago area after making broken promises to regulators.
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US News now includes health equity in hospital rankings
Healthcare ECONOMIST
OCTOBER 17, 2022
On July 26, 2022, US News & World Report published new and updated health equity measures for hospitals featured on the publication’s website… Each equity measure was developed under a framework comprising 3 domains: access, outcomes, and social determinants of health. This measure is probably the most problematic.
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Council of Accountable Physician Practices Elects Joe Kimura, MD, MPH, Atrius Health, to Board of Directors
Accountable Care Doctors
MARCH 19, 2021
The Council of Accountable Physician Practices (CAPP), a coalition of visionary medical groups and health systems supporting accountable value-based care, has added Joe Kimura, MD, MPH, to its board of directors. Coalition of Leading Medical Groups and Health Systems Confirms Board Appointments for 2021.
Impact of hospital mergers on quality: a case study
Healthcare ECONOMIST
JANUARY 14, 2022
There is mixed evidence about whether hospital mergers improve quality. 2022) investigates the impact of a recent hospital merger on quality in New York. The merging hospitals were described as follows: NYU Langone Health (NYULH) is an urban academic medical system. A recent paper by Wang et al.
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