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As revenue cycles increasingly depend on patients to pay their healthcare bills, AI digital engagement increases the collection rate, says  Dugan Winkie, head of Commercial Strategy at Cedar.  

Hurricane Helene resulted in a $7M loss of revenue and response effort expenses.

This represents a third of the population and makes the data breach the largest one known at a HIPAA-regulated entity.

Short-term disparity between rates and medical cost trend may have reached its widest point in Q3, CEO says. 

Healthcare organizations lose up to $900,000 per day on downtime alone, data shows.

Risk-based contracts became a financial lifeline for a challenging payer mix in southern Oregon, says Chief Executive Chris Pizzi.

The layoffs come on the heels of an earnings call in which the company said it was exploring options after a star ratings hit.

Medical illustrators need to take complex information and edit out what is not the physician's focus, such as an injury. AI has not learned proper cellular anatomy, says David Bolinsky, producer of The Inner Life of the Cell and E.mersion Studios CEO and creative director.  

Amazon One Medical will open primary care offices in Northeast Ohio.

The Tukey outlier, guardrails on cut points and the end of Chevron are factors that may influence payer challenges to low 2025 MA star ratings, says Jenn Kerfoot, chief strategy and growth officer at DUOS.