Healthcare stakeholders and policymakers must take action to address healthcare worker burnout or risk exacerbating the projected workforce shortage, a report from the United States Surgeon General...
The Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) has asked CMS to update the federal independent dispute resolution (IDR) portal to streamline the arbitration process for determining an out-of-network...
Healthcare finance leaders are experiencing revenue cycle workforce shortages, with one in four reporting that they need to hire more than 20 employees to fully staff their department, according to a...
The Colorado Supreme Court has ruled that a woman is not liable for her $229,000 surprise bill from a Centura Health hospital, as the hospital did not disclose the amount to her before the...
Despite declining operating margins, overall hospital profit margins remained stable in 2020, suggesting that federal relief funds helped offset financial losses for hospitals during the COVID-19...
Following the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for nursing home staff, the vaccination rate among facility workers increased across the country by 25 percentage points, according to an issue brief from the...
Hospitals performed more than 100,000 low-value procedures on Medicare beneficiaries in 2020, contributing to the high rate of hospital overuse during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an analysis...
Newly certified internists commonly choose to practice medicine in hospitals rather than outpatient settings, suggesting that the outpatient primary care physician shortage will escalate, according to...
The American Hospital Association (AHA) and 25 other healthcare organizations have asked Congress to increase funding for the Children’s Hospitals Graduate Medical Education (CHGME) program to...
Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health have announced plans to merge into a joint health system and combine their clinical knowledge to provide care and improve health equity for patients across six...
Contract labor utilization and cost increased dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic and were contributing factors to rising hospital labor expenses, according to a report from Kaufman Hall.
The...
The pandemic may have brought some financial relief to consumers, as the share of adults experiencing medical debt challenges decreased in 2021, an Urban Institute report found.
Researchers used data...
While nursing salaries have increased, the share of nurses considering leaving the profession is also up as pandemic-related stressors continue to impact the workplace and exacerbate the nurse...
The healthcare industry added 34,000 jobs in April 2022, with ambulatory care, nursing and residential care facility, and hospital employment all seeing growth, according to a report from the Bureau of...
The COVID-19 pandemic intensified healthcare workforce challenges, leading to significant staffing shortages, increased healthcare worker burnout, and other hurdles that will likely persist after the...
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to significant financial stress for rural hospitals, with 441 facilities facing financial risk factors putting them at risk of closure, according to a report from the...
Vertical integration and joint contracting between physicians and health systems led to increases in physician prices, with the size of the increases correlating with the health system’s size,...
Private equity acquisitions of short-term acute care hospitals were generally not associated with any changes in patient outcomes or healthcare spending among Medicare beneficiaries, a study published...
Following a rocky financial start to 2022, hospitals saw some early signs of relief in March, with higher revenues and outpatient volumes plus lower expenses, according to Kaufman Hall’s National...
Catholic organizations SSM Health and Saint Louis University have announced a merger agreement to create an integrated healthcare network and improve health outcomes and health equity for the St. Louis...
