Risk Management

Department of Justice says chain allowed patients to undergo radiation cancer treatment that was not supervised by radiation oncologists.

A number of big deals, involving both for-profit and nonprofit health systems, have recently fallen apart amid pushback from regulators and skepticism from researchers, who note a lack of evidence about long-term quality and cost impacts.

Premera hack puts renewed focus on securing sensitive healthcare info.

Collect financial information upfront, fight insurance denials, and send a combined bill from hospital and physician among advice for hospital finance staff.

While the sector is struggling, one expert offers these financial tips for enhancing investment assets to shore up balance sheets at hospitals and health systems.

You can expect more credit downgrades than upgrades in 2015 among the country's nonprofit hospitals, Standard & Poor's announced this week, as expensive upgrades and pressures to convert to value-based payment systems continue to gnaw away at bottom lines.

Trinity Health is set to expand its risk-based care operations, announcing last week that it will partner with Heritage Provider Network to form accountable care networks linking Trinity’s 86 hospitals with the 37,000 physicians in league with Heritage.

No matter what system is used for communicating patient information between physicians, it should be routinely assessed for deficiencies.

Between online marketplaces for Social Security numbers and data hijackings at Sony and critical access hospitals, catching and preventing fraud has never been more important or dependent on technology.

Linda Burt, vice president and chief financial officer at Nebraska Methodist Health System in Omaha, Neb., sat down with Healthcare Finance News to discuss the primary ways in which hospital CFOs use analytics, and how data -- if assessed properly -- can reduce risk.