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The new rates, initiated on January 1, are being fully implemented on July 1, CMS said.

Attendees share photos, insights and potent one-liners on social media during the Healthcare Financial Management Association event in Las Vegas.

Julie Williamson, PhD, kicked off HFMA ANI 2016 Sunday night urging those in healthcare to find that sweet spot where they are actively embracing their organization's core competencies but at the same time incorporating what is changing the market, and the world, around them.

Health Care Authority approval exempts hospital merger from federal and state antitrust laws.

Running its own health plan has allowed this Wisconsin system to design a homemade value-based reimbursement model.

HFMA: The Healthcare Financial Management Association has named Richard D. Schrock, as the recipient of the 2016 Frederick C. Morgan Individual Achievement Award. HFMA announced the award as part of ANI 2016 in Las Vegas.

At its 2016 ANI event, the Healthcare Financial Management Association on Sunday named 150 healthcare providers as leaders for adopting best practices when it comes to patient financial communications, an important benchmark as patient financial responsibility rises.

Higher numbers of payers and practice managers coming to the show, underscoring the need for collaboration in the face of volume-to-value shift.

A one-day strike scheduled for Monday at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston that would have been the largest in Massachusetts history and the first in Boston in 30 years has been averted. The Massachusetts Nurses Association made the announcement Saturday, less than two days before the strike was scheduled to begin.

3,300 nurses at Brigham and Women's Hospital have said they would go out on strike for 24 hours on Monday, causing the major Boston healthcare provider to bring in 700 nurses from an outside agency and ramp down patient operations to 60 percent capacity.