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While Connecticut's 2014-2015 budget has yet to be finalized, hospitals and healthcare systems in the state are claiming that Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's proposed cuts of more than $500 million in hospital funding over the next two years would be devastating.
Two years after receiving federal planning grants and 9 months after inking an IT contract, the Minnesota Health Insurance Exchange's enabling legislation is being finalized by state lawmakers, amid competing visions for regulatory scope.
In an education session Monday at HIMSS13 titled "How Hospitals Improve Their Bottom Line and Improve Relationships with Uninsureds," two people on the front lines showcased an innovative, IT-enabled approach to "transition from seeing these patients as a burden," and toward a way to better engage them in financing their care.
Women in a number of counties located primarily in the South and West have higher mortality rates than those in other regions, and the reasons extend beyond access to medical care, according to research published in the March issue of Health Affairs.
Despite the federal government's efforts to foster pricing transparency at hospitals, a new study finds that many hospitals can't provide a price for a common surgical procedure.
A physicians commission co-chaired by former Senate majority leader Bill Frist, MD, a Republican and heart surgeon from Tennessee, is calling for the federal government to phase out the fee-for-service payment model within the next decade.
A physicians commission co-chaired by former Senate majority leader Bill Frist, MD, a Republican and heart surgeon from Tennessee, is calling for the federal government to phase out the fee-for-service payment model within the next decade.
A new series of data briefs prepared by Avalere Health and released by the SCAN Foundation show that seniors enrolled in traditional Medicare who suffer from severe mental illness (SMI) and substance abuse disorder (SUD) cost the program an average of five times more than those without SMI in 2010.
As the ICD-10 deadline looms closer, many healthcare organizations are still trying to come up with the most effective communications, collaboration and testing strategies to assure implementation of the diagnostic and procedural code set change.
In "The Exchange Strategy for Managing Conflict in Health Care: How to Defuse Emotions and Create Solutions When the Stakes Are High," authors Steven Dinkin, Barbara Filner and Lisa Maxwell share how healthcare professionals can foster a healthy workplace. Dinkin talked to Healthcare Finance News about the book.