Tenet Healthcare has announced that it will not go through with the planned spinoff of its revenue cycle management subsidiary, Conifer Health Solutions.
Tenet’s Board of Directors, with the...
Healthcare finance struggles plague adults in every generation, with a quarter of Generation Z and Millennial Americans reporting that they skipped their rent or mortgage payments due to medical debt,...
As expenses continued to rise, hospitals experienced sudden declines in revenue, operating margins, and outpatient volumes during January 2022 amid the Omicron surge, according to Kaufman Hall’s...
The American Hospital Association (AHA) has asked CMS to reconsider its methodology for distributing residency slots to teaching hospitals, which the agency finalized in the hospital inpatient...
Only 50 percent of hospitals that offered lumbar spine MRI services were compliant with the CMS hospital price transparency rule, according to a study from Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy...
Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha has rejected the application for the proposed healthcare merger between health systems Lifespan and Care New England.
In a 150-page decision, Attorney...
The American Hospital Association (AHA) has asked Congress to lift the caps on physician residency positions and increase financial support programs to help health systems address the shortage of...
Healthcare facilities across the country have been facing high levels of workforce shortages in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Health systems and hospitals are particularly concerned about nurse...
After nearly two years in a global pandemic, the healthcare industry has faced numerous hurdles. But healthcare chief financial officers (CFOs) have high hopes for the upcoming year and plan to improve...
Six Connecticut residents have filed a healthcare antitrust lawsuit against Hartford HealthCare (HHC), alleging that the health system used unlawful and anticompetitive methods to charge payers and...
Less than 20 percent of hospitals are complying with the CMS price transparency rule that went into effect on January 1, 2021, according to a report from PatientRightsAdvocate.org.
The hospital price...
Prior authorization negatively impacted patients and providers alike by leading to care delays for patients and creating administrative burden for physicians, according to a survey from the American...
In order to ensure accountable care organization (ACO) and patient experience success, providers must collaborate across the continuum of care, suggested a recent study out of the Ohio State...
Market research firm KLAS has released its top picks for healthcare software vendors based on evaluations from more than 23,700 software users from more than 4,500 healthcare organizations. This year,...
Hospital labor shortages replaced financial challenges as the top concern for hospitals in 2021, according to data from the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE).
“This is the first...
According to Kaufman Hall’s latest Physician Flash Report, patient volume, revenue, and productivity increased for physician practices with performances exceeding pre-pandemic...
Most hospitals ended 2021 in a stronger financial position compared to the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. However, they are entering the third year of COVID-19 down compared to...
The Great Resignation and other employment challenges are hitting revenue cycle management, a new survey of hospital and health system leaders indicates.
The survey commissioned by healthcare...
A bipartisan group of 195 Congress members wrote to the White House COVID-19 Response Team Coordinator Jeffrey Zient requesting an investigation into reports of alleged price gouging by nurse...
In 2021, healthcare employment experienced no significant growth. However, ambulatory care employment saw an increase in jobs exceeding pre-pandemic rates, an analysis from Altarum revealed...
