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Certified Specialist Physician Practice Management (CSPPM)
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Social Determinants of Health
Dr. Brian Castrucci, an epidemiologist and CEO of the de Beaumont Foundation, talks with HFMA President and CEO Joe Fifer about policies to improve public health, cost effectiveness of health, the future of COVID-19 and the healthcare indus...
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Medicare Payment and Reimbursement
HFMA senior editor Nick Hut is joined by Rep. Suzan DelBene to talk about the Improving Seniors' Timely Access to Care Act as well as following up on the Value in Health Care Act.
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Medicare Payment and Reimbursement
Citing patient safety concerns among other issues, CMS formally canceled a Trump administration rule that would have required Medicare to cover breakthrough medical devices.
By Nick Hut
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Telemedicine
Healthcare News of Note for healthcare finance professionals is a roundup of recent news articles: A majority of people prefer in-person healthcare to telehealth visits, patients have trouble grasping information during doctor visits, and W...
By Deborah Filipek
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Consumerism
The American healthcare system is experiencing significant shifts, moving past long-standingnorms. Health consumers increasingly want the new point-of-purchase financing options synonymous with today’s retail experience for their healthcare...
By Shannon Burke
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Medicare Payment and Reimbursement
CMS used the 2022 final rule for Medicare physician payments to offer accommodations on policies related to telehealth and more, but concerns loom about a large cut that's in the offing.
By Nick Hut
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Medicare Payment and Reimbursement
Citing patient safety concerns among other issues, CMS formally canceled a Trump administration rule that would have required Medicare to cover breakthrough medical devices.
By Nick Hut
News
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Telemedicine
Healthcare News of Note for healthcare finance professionals is a roundup of recent news articles: A majority of people prefer in-person healthcare to telehealth visits, patients have trouble grasping information during doctor visits, and W...
By Deborah Filipek
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Medicare Payment and Reimbursement
CMS used the 2022 final rule for Medicare physician payments to offer accommodations on policies related to telehealth and more, but concerns loom about a large cut that's in the offing.
By Nick Hut
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Medicare Payment and Reimbursement
Medicare policies affecting price transparency, the inpatient-only list and more will take effect Jan. 1 after CMS published its 2022 final rule for hospital outpatient departments and ambulatory surgical centers.
By Nick Hut
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Strategic Partnerships Mergers and Acquisitions
The number of M&A transactions involving hospitals and health systems remained at historically low levels, but the average revenue involved was far higher than in recent years.
By Nick Hut
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Medicare Payment and Reimbursement
The Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund is on course to run out of money by 2026, and that assessment wasn’t the only concerning part for hospitals in a new government report.
By Nick Hut
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Medicare Payment and Reimbursement
Updates to a Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation care model for end-stage renal disease include an equity-related bonus payment and associated changes to benchmarking.
By Nick Hut
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Administrative Simplification
Savings can be generated at the organizational and healthcare industry levels through steps to reduce wasteful administrative processes, study authors wrote.
By Nick Hut
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Strategic Partnerships Mergers and Acquisitions
The findings have implications as policymakers consider ways to curb healthcare prices.
By Nick Hut
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Medicare Payment and Reimbursement
A federal district court dealt hospitals a defeat in a case about uncompensated care payments, issuing a summary judgment in favor of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
By Nick Hut
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Medicare Payment and Reimbursement
A new federal report indicates CMS pays excessively to cover capital expenditures during the first two years of a hospital’s existence.
By Nick Hut
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Medicare Payment and Reimbursement
Harvard researchers found evidence to suggest that hospitals with large shares of Medicare patients are at greater risk of being acquired, which can skew the market structure and lead to higher commercial prices.
By Nick Hut