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Deep Dive4 healthcare antitrust issues to watch
The FTC is looking to get more aggressive with anticompetitive tie-ups while states eye ways to beef up oversight. And if handed the reins of HHS, Xavier Becerra would likely put an antitrust lens to potential rules.
By Samantha Liss • March 1, 2021 -
Mayo Clinic's 2020 profit down, but net assets increase considerably
In December, the nonprofit system returned nearly half of the federal coronavirus relief funds it received. That's on top of sending back advanced Medicare payments earlier in the year.
By Ron Shinkman • March 1, 2021 -
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Hospitals are still struggling with provider burnout, after the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated underlying staffing issues and prompted workers to quit their jobs.
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FTC abandons challenge to Jefferson Health-Einstein merger, allowing deal to proceed
The union between the two Philadelphia providers, first announced two years ago, is now expected to close within six months.
By Samantha Liss • Updated March 1, 2021 -
Hospitals likely upcoding severity levels for Medicare patients, OIG says
The most expensive hospital stays increased 20% over the six years studied, which were before the COVID-19 pandemic began, according to the report.
By Ron Shinkman • Feb. 26, 2021 -
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Cyberattack cost UHS $67M in back half of 2020
Still, the hospital operator reported year-over-year increases in profit for the fourth quarter of 2020 and the full year, helped some by federal pandemic relief funds.
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Rising expenses threaten hospitals' financial recovery: AHA, Kaufman Hall report
Costs to treat COVID-19 patients are continuing to hamper finances as more lucrative services sluggishly recover, according to the report from the consultants and the hospital lobby.
By Hailey Mensik • Feb. 25, 2021 -
Ascension expands pilot of Google EHR search tool
The two linked in 2018 to work on leveraging the health system's clinical data to create an integrated, longitudinal record of patient care and develop other health tools.
By Rebecca Pifer Parduhn • Feb. 25, 2021 -
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Becerra backs price transparency, provider competition at first Senate panel
President Joe Biden's pick for HHS chief turns Wednesday to the finance panel, which will vote on sending the nomination to the full Senate.
By Shannon Muchmore • Feb. 24, 2021 -
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FDA review supports safety, efficacy of J&J coronavirus vaccine
Agency scientists noted the shot's strong protection against severe COVID-19, even for the virus variant first detected in South Africa and known to weaken vaccine potency.
By Ned Pagliarulo , Jonathan Gardner • Feb. 24, 2021 -
Lifespan, Care New England ink deal to create academic medical system with Brown University
"If the COVID pandemic taught us one thing it is that we are better when we work together," Lifespan CEO Timothy Babineau said.
By Samantha Liss • Feb. 24, 2021 -
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Hospitals still struggle with volumes, finances due to COVID-19
Kaufman Hall's national hospital flash report found ED visits were down 24.7% year over year in January, suggesting one of the biggest feeders into inpatient admissions will remain significantly depressed.
By Ron Shinkman • Feb. 23, 2021 -
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How programs overcome administrative challenges to immerse medical students in community-based care.
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Capping hospital prices could save $235B annually, Rand study says
The American Hospital Association blasted the report, casting blame on the insurance industry and noting that sector's recent healthy profits.
By Ron Shinkman • Feb. 18, 2021 -
Google opens new office near Mayo Clinic campus to galvanize tech collaboration
The goal of the venture is to form an "AI factory," churning out algorithms and other digital products powered by Google in several clinical specialties.
By Rebecca Pifer Parduhn • Feb. 18, 2021 -
Hospital admissions not linked to COVID-19 fell dramatically in fall, especially in Midwest
The latest analysis from the Kaiser Family Foundation gives a fuller picture of how the pandemic affected inpatient volume throughout 2020, focusing on trends by age, sex and region.
By Samantha Liss • Feb. 18, 2021 -
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Obama admin alum Chiquita Brooks-LaSure picked to head CMS
Brooks-LaSure will have a lot on her plate. Biden during his campaign ran on expanding the role of the Affordable Care Act and perhaps attempting to build in a public option or lowered Medicare age eligibility.
By Shannon Muchmore • Updated Feb. 19, 2021 -
Baylor Scott and White, other hospitals stressed as storms pummel Texas, southern states
The dominant Texas health system with 51 hospitals closed drive-thru COVID-19 testing sites and rescheduled vaccine appointments while other systems in Louisiana and elsewhere are putting off elective care.
By Hailey Mensik • Feb. 17, 2021 -
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CMS inpatient only policy threatens patient access to appropriate surgical setting
Nixing Medicare's IPO list has unintended consequences, especially for high-risk patients, the president of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons argues.
By Joseph Bosco • Feb. 16, 2021 -
Biden admin begins plan to rescind Medicaid work mandates in win for providers
The policies threatened to lower hospitals' Medicaid revenues as enrollees lost coverage, raising uncompensated care costs. But lawsuits and the pandemic have kept states from implementing the controversial Trump-era requirements.
By Samantha Liss • Feb. 16, 2021 -
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800 Tenet nurses at Massachusetts hospital set March strike date
The union issued a 10-day notice to hospital management Tuesday, intending to start the strike March 8 without a determined end date.
By Hailey Mensik • Updated Feb. 24, 2021 -
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Health system execs: national approach needed to stem vaccine disarray
"We don't know until we open the package how many doses we're getting that week," EVP of Ascension Joe Cacchione said Thursday during a webinar organized by the American Hospital Association.
By Samantha Liss • Feb. 11, 2021 -
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Joint Commission alerts on health equity as vaccine disparity fears grow
Training staff on implicit bias, providing interpreters for patients of different cultures, using communication platforms beyond the telephone and tapping trusted community voices are among the accrediting group's recommendations.
By Shannon Muchmore • Feb. 11, 2021 -
COVID-19 leads to explosion in cyberattacks, data breaches
A survey from CI Security found successful hacks involving healthcare organizations or their business associates soared in the second half of last year, leading to a jump in the number of breached patient records.
By Ron Shinkman • Feb. 10, 2021 -
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Tenet swings to profit, but execs guarded on a post-pandemic recovery
The hospital operator is delaying its plan to spin off its revenue cycle management subsidiary, Conifer Health Solutions, into an independent publicly traded company for another year because of disruption from COVID-19.
By Hailey Mensik , Samantha Liss • Updated Feb. 10, 2021 -
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Hospital interest in patient monitoring tools rising, survey finds
Purchasing managers surveyed now expect to have bigger capital equipment budgets this year than they did six months into the pandemic, investment bank UBS said.
By Susan Kelly • Feb. 9, 2021
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