Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

R-Louisiana, and Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, published a policy paper advocating to impose site-neutral Medicare payments on hospitals. | However, hospital groups were quick to slam the proposal. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D.,

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NOVEMBER 12, 2024

In a sample of 100 hospitals, 34 didn’t meet requirements for publishing machine-readable files of their charges while 14 didn’t follow rules to post shoppable services.

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

CMS made some concessions to hospitals who strongly criticized the kidney transplant model proposed rule in May. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized a six-year mandatory model to increase access to kidney transplants, the agency announced Nov.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Hospital patients’ risk of death has fallen substantially since the COVID-19 pandemic and the months preceding it, even as hospitals are treating more and sicker patients, according to a new report | An analysis of 715 hospitals' patient safety metrics showed that patients hospitalized in Q1 2024 were about 22% more likely to survive as compared (..)

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Monash to tap Apollo Hospitals DB for clinical AI projects Monash University's Faculty of Information Technology has tied up with one of India's biggest hospital groups, Apollo Hospitals, to test and validate clinical AI. An initial $34 million ($22 million) was invested in ARIIA during its founding in 2021.

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Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Nearly half of rural hospitals moved out of the high-risk category after a merger, acquisition or affiliation with a larger system, a new analysis has found. |

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in a case centered on Congress’ formula for calculating disproportionate share hospital payments. | Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in a case centered on Congress’ formula for calculating disproportionate share hospital payments.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

More Kaiser Permanente members in Colorado will soon be able to visit CommonSpirit Health hospitals for their inpatient and emergency care, the nonprofit giants announced Tuesday. Four of CommonSpirit Health's Metro Denver area hospitals will integrate Kaiser Permanente physicians and employees to provide care for its members.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 16, 2024

Bangkok Hospital, one of Thailand's largest private healthcare providers, has moved away from the paper and manual process of registering and managing patient flow in its headquarters. The HDC can now send electronic forms that patients can fill out, even before going to the hospital.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Facing a second major storm within two weeks, some hospitals on Florida's Gulf Coast are again closing up shop and transferring patients across the state.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Labor costs and availability were major pain points for hospital and health system operations during the pandemic but finally look to be leveling out even as demand for care services remains high, | Though post-pandemic demand and an aging population are still at play, hospitals and health systems have made gains on rampant wage inflation and job openings (..)

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Its authors suggest that any attempts to reconfigure nonprofit hospitals' exemptions and corresponding community benefit spending would be best employed at the state or local level.

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Health Care Dive

AUGUST 7, 2024

One challenge hospitals face is reimbursement from private payers, which doesn’t cover the higher costs of care in rural areas, according to a report by the Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform.

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 30, 2024

Hospitals are off the hook for data reporting requirements that have been in place since the early COVID-19 pandemic. Hospitals were required to share COVID-19 admissions, ICU capacity and other related data on a daily basis during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, then the reporting frequency shifted.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 6, 2024

hospitals are taking steps to conserve their supplies of intravenous (IV) fluids as one of the country's biggest manufacturers reduces shipments after Hurricane Helene flooded a major facility in North Carolina.

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Fierce Healthcare

AUGUST 20, 2024

The upward trajectory of Medicare Advantage (MA) enrollment is likely to become an issue for hospitals and other healthcare providers forced to contend with plans’ prior authorization requirements | Prior authorization burdens and "a challenging contract negotiation season" on the horizon are likely headwinds for providers, and hospitals (..)

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Health Care Dive

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Hospitals continued to add workers to payrolls, while annual wage growth rates stabilized. Both are promising signs for nonprofit and for-profit providers.

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Fierce Healthcare

AUGUST 16, 2024

Massachusetts' governor has announced that deals in principle have been reached for Ste | Massachusetts' governor has announced that deals in principle have been reached for Steward Health Care's four remaining hospitals in Massachusetts.

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Health Care Dive

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Federal antitrust regulators are asking Indiana to block Union Hospital and HCA-owned Terre Haute Regional Hospital’s request for a certificate of public advantage, which allows states to greenlight potentially problematic mergers.

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Health Care Dive

AUGUST 29, 2024

Increased demand for services helped offset high expenses for hospitals during July, according to analytic solutions firm Strata.

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 15, 2024

Nearly every hospital is feeling the consequences of Change Healthcare’s cyberattack on their finances, patient care delivery, or both, according to reports from almost 1,000 hospitals compiled by | Almost 60% of surveyed hospitals reported at least $1 million of impacted revenues per day, and 74% said that the incident has had "direct" implications (..)

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Fierce Healthcare

AUGUST 6, 2024

This week on “Podnosis” we're discussing a new payment model that could affect thousands o | This week on “Podnosis” we're discussing a new payment model that could affect thousands of hospitals across the country. It's called TEAM, and it stands for Transforming Episode Accountability Model.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 6, 2024

Blank Hospital is scheduled to open this September. It is one of the largest and most advanced pediatric hospitals in the world. Blank Hospital. What was the overarching health IT strategy that went into creating the hospital from the ground up? Blank Hospital opening in September. Blank Hospital.

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 18, 2024

The hospital industry is warning that a proposed mandatory model for kidney transplants could introduce “unnecessary disruption and uncertainty to the transplant ecosystem” and ultimately undercut | Hospital lobbyists wrote that the Increasing Organ Transplant Access (IOTA) Model "is not fully developed and contains fundamental flaws” that would (..)

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Health Care Dive

OCTOBER 4, 2024

The CMS fails to check hospitals’ pricing data for accuracy and completeness, raising questions about whether the data can be used as intended to help payers and patients shop for services, according to the government agency.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Orlando Health has wrapped up its purchase of five Birmingham, Alabama-area hospitals’ majority ownership stakes from Tenet Healthcare, the systems announced Tuesday morning.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Hospitals are finalizing contingency plans and transferring patients ahead of Hurricane Helene, which is set to make landfall in northwestern Florida late this evening as at least a Category 3 hurr | “Although Florida has had some experience with this, [Hurricane Helene] seems to be on a scale that the state hasn’t seen in a very long time,” said Mary (..)

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Health Care Dive

JUNE 26, 2024

A National Bureau of Economic Research report found layoffs followed hospital mergers, as employers struggled to absorb the costs of rising healthcare premiums.

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Health Care Dive

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Independent hospitals can receive efficiency and profitability boosts from acquisitions. However, buyouts don’t continue to improve operating metrics for corporate-owned hospitals, according to a new study.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Princ Hospital Suvarnabhumi from Thailand has been validated for Stage 7 of the HIMSS Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model. The EMRAM measures the clinical outcomes, patient engagement, and clinician use of EMR technology in a hospital or health facility.

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 30, 2024

hospitals. | A federal grand jury indicted a North Korean national for allegedly leading ransomware attacks in 2022 against U.S. A federal grand jury indicted a North Korean national for allegedly leading ransomware attacks against U.S.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Developing smart hospitals has been a way for South Korea to meet the growing demand for more personalised healthcare in their fast-ageing society. " KHIDI piloted the smart hospital project in 2020. It involved 17 partner hospitals that were supported in their transformation into model smart hospitals.

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 13, 2024

The gap between insurance plans and Medicare's payments to hospitals for inpatient and outpatient services widened over the course of just a couple of years, a new study from RAND Corporation | A new report from RAND Corporation highlighted just how much more employers and private insurers are paying hospitals for inpatient and outpatient services. (..)

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Health Care Dive

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Hospitals are primed for natural disasters like earthquakes and hurricanes, but many haven’t thought about the domino effect cyberattacks can have locally, said Scott Gee, who joined AHA last month.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Founded in 1989, the 2,765-bed hospital is the largest in South Korea, serving around 13,000 patients daily. It is also the teaching hospital of the University of Ulsan College of Medicine. The previous framework evaluated healthcare organisations in the areas of mobility, security, collaboration, transport and data centres.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 13, 2024

Prompted by H-ISAC, the American Hospital Association also sent a cybersecurity advisory with technical mitigation recommendations to its members. The AHA has warned its member hospitals that it is urgent to heed H-ISAC's recommendations on defending against the emerging threat.

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