Debate on hospital merger antitrust review draws focus to access and margins
Amid recurring criticism about the impact of hospital-led consolidation, a new report recommends that regulators look beyond price increases in evaluating mergers within the sector. Commissioned by the American Hospital Association and prepared by Kaufman Hall, the report states that merger reviews should also consider hospital financial stability, access to care and the impact on…
From Insight to Impact: Using Data to Shape Real Estate Decisions
Healthcare organizations already possess one of their most valuable strategic assets: their own patient data. The challenge is not collecting information. It is transforming that information into insight that can guide growth, capital deployment, and portfolio performance. RTG helps health systems move beyond assumptions by combining patient origin analysis, portfolio performance benchmarking, and market intelligence…
Healthcare Finance mid-year trends
Discover the latest mid-year trends shaping healthcare—from AI and automation to patient experience, financial health, technology, and leadership priorities.
When healthcare navigation needs clinical accountability
Healthcare navigation has become an important part of the employer benefits strategy. It can help employees understand coverage, find in-network providers, schedule appointments and work through administrative barriers. But access support and clinical care management solve different problems. That distinction matters when an employee’s need involves symptoms, medication concerns, a recent hospitalization or a worsening…
Profitability Under Pressure: How Senior Living CFOs Are Turning Margin Squeeze Into Strategic Growth
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Improving the healthcare system for women
Nick Hut talks about 2027 Proposed Rules for the Physician Fee Schedule with Katie Gilfillan. Erika Grotto interviews Terry Hush of Roji Health Intelligence about how the healthcare industry can better serve women.
Patient matching bill could save $2.5M per hospital
Support is growing in Congress and in the healthcare industry to enact a national patient matching framework that would save billions of dollars in denied claims for hospitals and health systems. Most recently, two U.S. Senators, Mark Warner (D-Va,) and Jim Banks (R-Ind.), introduced the MATCH IT Act, a companion bill to House Bill HR…
From data capture to denial prevention: Strengthen patient access upstream
Revenue loss is often discovered after adjudication, but the conditions that created it may have entered the account days or weeks earlier. An outdated coverage record, missing authorization or unresolved identity mismatch can pass through patient access and surface only when payment is delayed. By then, the organization is managing rework rather than preventing it.…
News Briefs: A small increase to hospital outpatient payments could be negated in 2027
Hospital outpatient departments and ambulatory surgical centers would receive a 2.4% base increase to Medicare payments in 2027, according to a CMS proposed rule published July 7. A 3.2% increase to the market basket would be reduced by 0.8% due to the mandatory economywide productivity adjustment. The numbers could change moderately when the final rule…
Nathan Kaufman: A tragedy of epic proportions looms for healthcare
Garrett Hardin popularized the idea of a tragedy of the commons in a 1968 Science essay carrying that title.a It describes a situation in which individuals with unlimited access to a public resource act in their own self-interest and ultimately deplete it. Hardin used grazing on a public pasture to make his point. Imagine a…