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Healthcare ECONOMIST
JUNE 30, 2022
How do efficiently is care provided for patients at Veteran Affairs’ hospitals as compared to private hospitals? This is not an easy question to answer as the composition of patients differs between these hospitals.
NASHP
APRIL 5, 2022
Understanding Hospital Costs. As health care spending continues to rise — with the largest proportion of those expenditures on hospital services — states and other purchasers are seeking to better understand and address hospitals’ costs. Hospital Cost Tool.
Health Care Dive
OCTOBER 25, 2021
Learn how the introduction of a surgicalist program can yield valuable marketing opportunities for your hospital
Health Care Dive
DECEMBER 1, 2021
Hospital interests are sending letters to top congressional leadership and even launching ad campaigns in a bid to stave off pending Medicare cuts
Healthcare Dive
JUNE 28, 2022
The Lown Institute index, which measures hospitals with metrics such as value and health equity, found that the best performers were often located in smaller communities
Healthcare ECONOMIST
MAY 4, 2022
As the rates of COVID-19 increased the burden on hospitals in the early months of the pandemic, hospitals were decry a lack of beds and pressure on staff. While COVID-19 is of course a very acute case of over-crowding, a more general question is how much does hospital crowding impact health outcomes. The outcomes of interest were 7-day unplanned readmission and 30-day in-hospital mortality. Hospitals Operations Research Overcrowding Readmissions
Health Care Dive
NOVEMBER 17, 2021
The agency's final guidance on the practice of sharing resources in an effort to improve provider efficiency drew praise from the American Hospital Association
Health Care Dive
JANUARY 4, 2022
The deal includes some staffing improvements that were top priorities for nurses, including limits on how many patients can be assigned in certain hospital units, along with wage increases, the union said
Healthcare ECONOMIST
JUNE 7, 2022
The authors used data from Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP), American Hospital Association Survey, Hospital Compare, and American Community Survey data and find that: Non-Hispanic Black individuals live in zip codes supplied, on average, 0.11 However, the hospitals supplying this capacity have 0.36 Zip codes in the most urban parts of America have the least hospital capacity (2.11 Hospitals Health disparities Hospital Capacity
HIT Consultant
JUNE 22, 2022
Hospitals are increasingly turning to value-based care initiatives to transform care delivery, lower the total cost of care, and improve patient outcomes. Here are five ways hospitals can use technology to succeed under value-based care: 1. Reduce hospital admissions.
nThrive
MARCH 28, 2022
The post Alvarado Hospital appeared first on nThrive. Case Study KnowledgeSource
Health Care Dive
AUGUST 30, 2021
Hackensack Meridian Health, the largest health system in New Jersey, wants to to acquire a close competitor. The Federal Trade Commission won an injunction to stop the deal, which is now headed to an appeals court
HIT Consultant
MARCH 7, 2022
What You Should Know: – Healthgrades announced its Leading Hospitals in Early COVID Care list of the top 24 U.S. hospitals that provided exceptional care while treating the highest volumes of coronavirus patients during the first wave of the pandemic. Hospitals across the U.S.
Health Care Dive
DECEMBER 20, 2021
Cleveland Clinic, Banner Health and other hospital systems are pausing nonessential procedures, while provider groups issued a joint statement Friday declaring that doctors and nurses are exhausted and heartbroken
Healthcare ECONOMIST
MAY 22, 2022
Recently the CBO published a report compared the rates public and private insurers pay to hospitals for inpatient services, for services at hospital outpatient departments (HOPD), and at ambulatory surgical centers (ASC). Hospital data was also linked to AHRQ’s Compendium of U.S.
Health Care Dive
DECEMBER 21, 2021
As the omicron variant spreads rapidly, the White House is mobilizing federal agencies to assist hospitals and states in the latest wave of infection
Baird Group
DECEMBER 20, 2021
Years ago, I heard a healthcare leader talk about the four hospitals within every hospital. He said that there was the daytime hospital, the nighttime hospital, the weekend hospital, and the holiday hospital.
Health Care Dive
SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
Intermountain is the latest system to announce it's putting non-emergency procedures back on hold at 13 of its hospitals, and expects the pause to last several weeks, CEO Marc Harrison said Friday
NASHP
APRIL 28, 2022
The post Hospital Cost Tool appeared first on The National Academy for State Health Policy. Policy
Health Care Dive
JANUARY 5, 2022
Expenses outpaced revenue growth as hospitals continued grappling with nationwide staffing shortages in November, according to Kaufman Hall
Health Care Dive
OCTOBER 6, 2021
The latest deal means the system will no longer have a footprint in the northwest part of the state after completing a divestiture plan of offloading hospitals surrounding the Atlanta area
Health Care Dive
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
Industry groups opposed the rules laying out masking, social distancing, testing and exposure notification requirements for hospitals and nursing homes.
Healthcare ECONOMIST
APRIL 29, 2022
Specifically, they find: Of the 1759 nonmetro counties in our study sample, 109 experienced a hospital closure during the study period. Results also suggest that Prospective Payment System (PPS) hospital closures significantly decreased population size, on average, by 1.1% (95% CI: [?1.7%, As a source for high-skilled jobs in rural areas, hospital closures have a significant impact on the local economy. Hospitals Supply of Medical Services Rural Hospitals
Health Care Dive
DECEMBER 13, 2021
Researchers said lack of transparency on costs for services by independent providers that bill separately from hospitals is complicating CMS' effort to help patients shop around for the best value
Healthcare Dive
MAY 20, 2022
The law includes penalties of up to $10,000 per day for hospitals failing to follow requirements and not taking corrective action, though Gov. Jared Polis asked the state health department to go easy on small, rural hospitals
Health Care Dive
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
The five states with the highest percentage of A-scoring hospitals were Virginia, North Carolina, Idaho, Massachusetts and Colorado
Kaiser Health News
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
The federal government has penalized 764 hospitals — including more than three dozen it simultaneously rates as among the best in the country — for having the highest numbers of patient infections and potentially avoidable complications. Exempted from the evaluation are around 2,000 hospitals.
Home Health Care
MAY 24, 2022
Though it’s by definition the delivery of high acuity care in the home setting, hospital-at-home programs tend to be operated by, and centered around, hospitals. The top-down approach refers to a model that is structured similarly to how hospitals are currently paid.
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. Creating a Better Process for Hospitals.
Home Health Care
JUNE 13, 2022
Advocates of the hospital-at-home model are continuing to make a strong push for the extension of the Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver. That’s why the “Hospital Inpatient Services Modernization Act” was introduced in March.
Home Health Care
JUNE 26, 2022
Specifically, the partnership will allow Memorial Hermann to deliver acute hospital care, post-hospitalization skilled nursing care and palliative care services in the home setting. Home Health Care Hospital at home Contessa Memorial Hermann Health System
Healthcare Dive
JUNE 9, 2022
Regulators have been criticized for moving slowly to enforce the rules, which came into effect January last year amid fierce opposition from hospital groups
Health Care Dive
OCTOBER 7, 2021
Hospitals are increasingly looking outside traditional care delivery methods threatened by COVID-19 to diversify business models by pursuing stakes in home health, virtual care and post-acute services
Health Care Dive
DECEMBER 1, 2021
Hospital interests are sending letters to congressional leadership and even launching ad campaigns in a bid to stave off pending Medicare cuts
Health Care Dive
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
The move comes less than a week after the state's largest provider, Intermountain Healthcare, announced a merger with SCL Health to expand its footprint to Colorado, Montana and Kansas
Health Care Dive
OCTOBER 22, 2021
Larger academic medical centers received a significantly larger proportion of federal coronavirus relief funds than smaller and more rural hospitals, a study of more than 950 facilities concluded
Health Care Dive
AUGUST 17, 2021
Currently, new facilities help pay for their capital costs through a special exemption. An HHS watchdog says Medicare could see significant cost savings if regulators did away with the carveout
Health Care Dive
SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
More than 280,000 hospitalizations from COVID-19 between June and August could have been prevented by vaccination, researchers found
Health Care Dive
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
A federal judge sided with HHS, pointing to a portion of the Medicare law that prohibits any administrative and judicial review of how the department arrived at its calculations
Health Care Dive
NOVEMBER 22, 2021
The ratings agency said staffing shortages, higher transportation costs and trouble sourcing some materials threaten healthcare revenue and operating margins in the near term
Health Care Dive
AUGUST 31, 2021
The findings from employment services firm Aon contrast sharply with this time last year, when widespread shutdowns of nonemergency care led systems to institute furloughs and other cost-cutting measures
Health Care Dive
AUGUST 24, 2021
Roughly 113,000 of the 185,000 inpatient stays with a COVID-19 diagnosis, or about 61%, could have been prevented by vaccination in June and July, researchers estimated
Health Care Success
MARCH 23, 2021
Healthcare consumerism has changed the way we do marketing for hospitals. They demand more, and this demand has caused hospitals to develop consumer-friendly services and processes. They also anticipate hospitals to improve services based on their feedback and expectations.
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