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Healthcare providers are expecting some form of slow down in accounts receivables immediately after the ICD-10 conversion in October 2014 – but less than one year from the deadline, it remains uncertain how significant these may be.
You recently rejoined the private equity world after a number of years working in the national healthcare policy arena. Why did you re-enter private equity and what are some of your investment goals with Consonance Capital Partners?
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.
Two regulations in particular had the attention of hospitals this year: the two-midnight rule and the final rule on disproportionate share hospital payments from Medicaid.
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.
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.