Strategic Planning

Just because it's hard to achieve a payer mix that better supports a health system's bottom line, it's not impossible.

The implementation of MACRA and the introduction of the Quality Payment Program is "flexible common-sense approach" for paying physicians, acting Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services chief Andy Slavitt said at the American Hospital Association's annual membership meeting this week, though the government is actively seeking feedback on the new program.

(SPONSORED) The advent of population health presents challenges and opportunities to payers.

A new study by the CVS Health Research Institute found that home infusion care is safe, clinically effective and improves quality of life; and when it's compared to infusion care delivered in a hospital or clinic, it may also reduce healthcare costs.

Major for-profit hospital chain Universal Health Services on Tuesday announced plans to buy out a minority interest in six of its Las Vegas acute care hospitals currently held by a third party.

Community Health Systems' long-awaited spin-off of its rural health business into Quorum Health Corp. wrapped up on Friday. Quorum is now an independent public company, trading under the QHC ticker symbol on the New York Stock Exchange.

If finalized, the affiliation would create an organization with 181 locations in Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee, employing more than 4,500 people and serving an estimated 150,000 patients.

A collaboration between scientists, clinicians and industry partners, the institute will spearhead efforts in cancer immunotherapy research -- benefitting from what amounts to the largest single contribution ever made to the field.

He spoke to our sister site Healthcare IT News about the program, the people who make Geisinger work, the evolution of population health and the promise of what he calls "anticipatory medicine."

The move could signal the beginnings of a new wave of RCM work in healthcare, a market emphasis that analysts figure is a multi-billion dollar opportunity.