Women in healthcare leadership continue to navigate contradictory expectations — decisive but accommodating, authoritative but approachable. The tactics for cutting through those expectations are shifting from vague advice about leaning in toward concrete organizational practices around clarity, sponsorship, environment and…
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Many health systems are treating climbing denial rates as a documentation problem. They’re not. They’re the output of a deliberate, structural shift in how payers operate—one that has outpaced what any human workflow can sustainably address. Initial claim denial rates…
Oakland-based University of California Health launched a tool in its EHR to help treat hypertension in patients systemwide. The UC Way Hypertension Medication Algorithm uses a stepwise approach to increasing medication types and doses, according to a March 18 system…
AI chatbots often project overconfidence, expressing certainty where it doesn’t exist. That’s dangerous for healthcare. So researchers affiliated with Beth Israel Lahey Health, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, all based in Cambridge, developed a framework to make…
Chicago-based Rush University System for Health predicts additional revenue capture after adopting automated coding and billing for infusions. The three-hospital system is integrating the solution from revenue cycle tech company Medaptus into its Epic EHR, expecting to bill 90% of…
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Medicare Advantage now covers about 55% of eligible beneficiaries (about 35 million people) and costs the federal government a projected $76 billion more in 2026 than traditional fee-for-service Medicare would, according to a March report by the Medicare Payment Advisory…
While academic medical centers have long run on hospitals generating the margin, medical schools advancing education and research, and faculty practice plans delivering patient care, that three-part arrangement is under financial strain. Drawing on data from 61 AMCs, Vizient’s March…
Orange, Calif.-based UCI Health plans to lay off about 150 workers — about 1% of its workforce — as part of a “strategic restructuring” amid widespread financial pressures, including federal funding cuts and changes to insurance reimbursement. Affected roles include…
Mass General Brigham took its academic medical centers from the bottom quartile in the nation on mortality to the top five with two changes. “There’s been an increasing disconnect between the front line and hospital administration,” Rachel Sisodia, MD, chief…
“Uncertainty” is a healthcare buzzword that has fallen from the lips of many hospital and health system CFOs in recent years — not as a complaint, but as a caution of a condition that must be managed. “The uncertainty makes…