6 takeaways from HFMA’s Cost Effectiveness of Health Summit: Why health spending must become more cost-effective
HFMA’s first Cost Effectiveness of Health Summit drove home the urgency of improving how healthcare dollars are spent.
Rural healthcare providers get almost $1 billion in federal funding to help with COVID-19 response
HRSA has announced the upcoming distribution of nearly $1 billion in federal funding for rural healthcare providers to use in COVID-19 testing, treatment and vaccination efforts.
Healthcare News of Note: 10 hospital system CEOs pledge to create new safety standard for healthcare workers
Healthcare News of Note for healthcare finance professionals is a roundup of recent news articles, including movement on safety standards to protect healthcare workers, the increasing role of PCPs in COVID-19 vaccinations and reductions in ACA out-of-pocket costs.
Healthcare News of Note: Hospital employment continues to decline despite an increase in jobs for the healthcare sector
A continuing drop in hospital job numbers, President Biden’s plans for the ACA and how COVID-19 affected stroke care during the pandemic are all topics covered in this week’s Healthcare News of Note.
“Access improves outcomes.” The benefits of telehealth for chronic conditions.
Arnold Saperstein from Cecilia Health and Susan Beane from HealthFirst discuss the opportunities of telehealth for patients with chronic conditions.
3 reasons healthcare providers are eager to offer text-to-pay convenience
Healthcare providers should consider the benefits of offering a text to pay option for their patients.
A now-or-never moment for telehealth? Demand will remain strong as long as technology and the healthcare industry can meet it
Payers and providers adapted quickly to the need for telehealth services, and most patients responded in kind. Demand will remain strong as long as technology and the industry can meet it.
CMS releases the 2021 hospital star ratings
CMS released its 2021 list of hospital star ratings on the Care Compare website, providing consumers with indications of a hospital’s quality based on a five-star scale.
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, research finds hospital organizations looking to capitalize on the benefits of ‘systemness’
In a survey of hospital strategic planners, larger health systems were substantially more likely to report that their volumes had reached or exceeded pre-COVID-19 levels.
In a win for hospitals, CMS removes a rate-reporting requirement from the Medicare FY22 Inpatient Prospective Payment System
An FY22 requirement for hospitals to disclose privately negotiated MA rates on their Medicare cost reports has been rescinded in the proposed rule for the Inpatient Prospective Payment System.