Forty hospitals in New York must stop all in-hospital elective surgeries as the state battles rising levels of COVID-19, the state’s Department of Health announced over the weekend. The order...
Pricing information publicly disclosed by CMS’ hospital price transparency rule falls short of informing consumers of their charges for many common hospital-based services, a new study published...
Pinnacle Hospital in Indiana, Saint Mary’s Regional Medical Center in Nevada, and Mercy Medical Center Dubuque in Iowa are among the most cost-efficient hospitals in the US, according to a new...
Private equity’s increased involvement in healthcare has raised some questions, but a new study in Health Affairs shows how private equity in healthcare is impacting service lines at acute care...
The American Hospital Association (AHA) has asked CMS to withdraw the proposed review choice demonstration (RCD) that would implement program integrity audits at inpatient rehabilitation facilities...
The impact the unvaccinated population is having on healthcare spending is significant, according to a new analysis from Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF).
There were approximately 287,000 preventable...
Congress allocated $178 billion to the Provider Relief Fund to help hospitals overcome the financial and operational challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. But the primary distribution method for the aid...
Media exposure, public awareness, and patient advocacy led to fewer patient medical debt lawsuits in Virginia, a recent study published in JAMA suggests.
The study follows a popular 2019 analysis...
Hospital margins are likely to fall in areas experiencing rising COVID-19 hospitalizations, according to the latest predictions from Fitch Ratings.
The squeeze on hospital margins will impact...
Vaccines could have prevented hundreds of thousands of COVID-19 hospitalizations and billions of dollars, a new analysis from the Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker reveals.
The analysis estimated...
Hospital price variation is widespread and much more noticeable now that CMS has enforced a price transparency rule, according to a recent report published in The New York Times.
The national news...
The healthcare industry faced its most challenging year in modern history in 2020, yet the healthcare turnover rate did not increase, at least among hospital CEOs.
According to a recent report from...
Whether a hospital price transparency rule designed to enable consumers to shop for healthcare services will lower healthcare costs is still up in the air after a recent poll shows low awareness of the...
Fixed-rate hospital contracts yield lower prices and costs compared to discounted charges contracts, according to a study from the American Journal of Managed Care (AJMC).
Hospital visits result in...
The majority of the top 100 hospitals by gross revenue are using a price estimator tool to comply with a landmark hospital price transparency rule from HHS, according to a recent study.
The study...
A study finding widespread and persistent delivery of low-value care services is based on incomplete data and omits important clinical details, according to the leading hospital professional...
CMS is proposing to increase Medicare hospital inpatient rates by $2.5 billion next fiscal year, in addition to bolstering the rural healthcare workforce and health equity reporting.
The rate increase...
CMS has released the proposed rules for the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility (IRF) Prospective Payment System and the Inpatient Psychiatric Facility Prospective Payment System for fiscal year (FY)...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced the immediate resumption of all hospital survey activities, including those related to Medicare compliance and patient safety.
This...
Four of the healthcare industry’s leading associations have revamped guidance on maintaining essential surgery as the number of COVID-19 hospitalizations surges across the country again.
The...
