Susan Morse
Supply chain represents 30 percent of hospital operations, ranking second only to labor in cost.
Gary Fingerhut, former executive director of information technologies at Cleveland Clinic Innovations, is charged with taking $130,000 in fees for not disclosing shell company.
Bipartisan plan is being written after four hearings with insurers, providers and other stakeholders.
Insurers provide the broader view on claims while hospitals have the deeper information on patient care through electronic medical records and clinical data.
Cost-sharing reduction payments to insurers not addressed in plan, but work of Senate committee that is addressing CSRs complements bill, Senators say.
Department of Health and Human Services is expected this week to release letters announcing funding, based on enrollment performance; Navigators expect a reduced amount
Culture of security starts with getting a buy-in from top executives on the importance of protecting information.
Cancer care is being shifted away from the private, physician-owned community oncology clinics and into the much more expensive 340B hospital settings, the Community Oncology Alliance says.
In Connecticut, exchange carriers have been asked to provide a supplemental rate filing that assumes CSRs will not be paid.
Insurers facing a Sept. 20 deadline to file final premium rates on the exchanges must decide whether to assume CSRs will continue, increase premiums, or leave market.