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Commercial and public payers and providers toiled in the trenches putting accountable care organizations (ACOs) and other new models of payment and delivery to work this year to determine if they in reality could improve quality and cost.
The issue of price transparency has been bubbling beneath the surface for some years but it boiled up last winter and has stayed top-of-mind ever since.
March is Women’s History Month, so in that spirit: What are your thoughts on being a
female CEO in the healthcare industry?
Business pressures are forcing hospital CFOs to re-evaluate their revenue cycle management solutions, according to research done in 2013 by Black Book Rankings and HIMSS Analytics.
The role of the healthcare CFO is dramatically changing and expanding. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the position specifications that leading organizations are drafting as they search for their next financial leader.
Whether or not accountable care organizations should take on more risk after just one year of experience or after three years in the Medicare Shared Savings Program was the issue the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission addressed at its monthly meeting Thursday.
Bucking expectations, the nation's employment rose by 204,000 in October. The healthcare industry continued to add jobs, but at a lower rate than has been the average through 2013.
Amid the uproar over President Obama's now untenable "If you like your insurance you can keep it" pledge, California's Insurance Department has obtained a temporary delay for some Blue individual policies on track to sunset in 2014.
Whether or not accountable care organizations should take on more risk after just one year of experience or after three years in the Medicare Shared Savings Program was the issue the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission addressed at its monthly meeting Thursday.
Our weekly look at career moves in the healthcare finance sector. This issue highlights promotions, hires and fires for the week ending November 8, 2013.