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The Citizens Commission on Human Rights called for increased monitoring of psychiatric hospitals to ensure patient safety.
The organizations will see their Medicare reimbursement rates dip by 1 percent in the coming year.
Consultants found HIE is not meeting state needs and patients lack confidence so they are working on an improvement plan.
While Longs Peak Family Practice was investigating a Nov. 5 ransomware attack, its infosec team discovered another hack into its system on Nov. 10.
$2.4 billion came from healthcare, including high-profile settlements with EHR vendor eClinicalWorks and EpiPen maker Mylan.
The troubles aren't over, however, with probes by the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission still ongoing.
The most important developments hospital finance and operations executives should understand heading into 2018.
For 2019, CMS will blend 25 percent of encounter data into risk scores for MA payment.
The health system will modernize existing facilities, expand others, build a new urgent care center and purchase medical equipment.
The transaction, expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2018, happened at the end of a year packed with mergers and acquisitions activity.