Key performance metrics and revenue continue to improve as health systems slowly recover from pandemic losses, but hospital operating margins remain tight, Kaufman Hall’s most recent National...
Workload balancing enables healthcare organizations to fill staffing gaps and maximize workforce management, and nurse and staff scheduling vendors can be a useful resource. A new KLAS report analyzed...
AMA, along with dozens of healthcare organizations, voiced support for COVID-19 vaccine mandates for healthcare workers in a recent announcement. Cases are increasing across the country as the highly...
Most self-insured employers in the US lack the market power necessary to take part in hospital price negotiations, according to a study published in the American Journal of Managed Care (AJMC)....
Only 5.6 percent of hospitals are compliant with the hospital price transparency rule just over six months after its implementation, according to a report on 500 randomly selected US hospitals...
A new KLAS Decision Insights report sheds light on what organizations look for when selecting or replacing their healthcare enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. Functionality, full-suite...
The top revenue cycle key performance indicators (KPIs) are evolving as more organizations use automation to pinpoint high value operations to improve revenue cycle management, according to an AKASA...
During the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic when healthcare staff and resources were stretched thin, nurse understaffing may have led to unsafe practice management workarounds, cognitive failures, and...
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Nonprofit hospitals failed to follow through on community health charity commitments, resulting in $17 billion in unrealized investments, according to the Lown Hospitals Index 2021...
The Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) is urging the US Department of Labor (DOL) to rescind or delay its COVID-19 healthcare emergency temporary standard (ETS), suggesting that the guidance...
A dozen health systems have committed to support supply chain sustainability by increasing spending with Minority and Women Owned Business Enterprises (MWBE) by $1 billion over the next five...
The billing team at Tucson Gastroenterology was meeting a bar of excellence, according to Julie Wester, contract administrator at the Arizona-based specialty practice. But that bar was threatened when...
One Medical has announced its plans to acquire human-centric, value-based primary care group Iora Health in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $2.1 billion.
The agreement will allow...
Despite a fiscally challenging year for the healthcare industry, physician compensation for most specialties has remained the same or has slightly increased, a new report from the Medical Group...
A new survey by Merritt Hawkins reveals that new physician recruitment rates are falling. In 2020, 62 percent of final-year residents received 26 or more recruiting offers, dropping from 82 percent in...
A recent survey from the American Medical Association (AMA) evaluated the challenges and roadblocks of prior authorization (PA) for physicians and patients three years after a coalition of industry...
Patient financial clearance is meant to provide a seamless patient experience while ensuring a smooth revenue cycle for providers. But more often than not, the process can be drawn out, burdensome, and...
The American Hospital Association (AHA) is asking HHS to extend the deadline for when providers can use COVID-19 relief funds to the end of the public health emergency (PHE).
HHS has set a deadline of...
Critical care nurses (CCNs) in poor physical and mental health report significantly more medical errors than nurses in better health, according to a study out of The Ohio State University College of...
Far fewer primary care practices are struggling financially a year after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a recent survey from the Larry A. Green Center, Primary Care Collaborative...
