David Yackell, CHC Vice President of Hospital Financial Operations, and Joe Thomason, CHC Senior Vice President of Hospital Operations, discuss the challenges of revenue cycle management for community hospitals and how to improve revenue cycle performance.
Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente must pay back wages to more than 1,000 registered nurses in California after an arbitration ruling, according to an Oct. 5 news release from the California Nurses Association. Four things to know: 1. The union, which…
AI could help hospitals lower costs, but Fitch said those savings could prompt payers and policymakers to reprice reimbursement. The analysis appears in Fitch’s “Artificial Intelligence Stress Test” report, published Oct. 5. The report scores 107 subsectors on how adverse…
Philip Minea has been named assistant CFO of TriStar Skyline Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn., according to an Oct. 2 LinkedIn post. The hospital is part of Nashville-based HCA Healthcare’s TriStar Health. Prior to his new role, Mr. Minea served…
Phoenix-based Valleywise Health has become the first hospital in Arizona to implement the LifeBubble Umbilical Line Securement System for premature and critically ill infants. The technology is designed to secure umbilical catheters used in newborns requiring critical care, reducing catheter…
Most patients with advanced pancreatic cancer treated with daraxonrasib will see the drug lose its effect, and researchers are starting to identify why, according to a Sept. 30 report in The New York Times. The FDA approved Revolution Medicines’ daraxonrasib…
Stephanie Hall, RN, has been named chief administrative officer of HSHS St. Francis Hospital in Litchfield, Ill., effective Nov. 9, according to a news release shared with Becker’s. The hospital is part of Springfield, Ill.-based Hospital Sisters Health System. In…
Louisville, Ky.-based Baptist Health nearly doubled the share of discharged patients leaving with prescriptions in hand. Then it made enrollment automatic. The system flipped its Meds to Beds program from opt-in to opt-out in Epic this year after pushing capture…
Texas Attorney General and U.S. Senate candidate Ken Paxton has launched an investigation into UnitedHealth Group. An Oct. 5 news release said the investigation resulted from allegations of “deceptive and unlawful practices” that could have denied Texans medically necessary care.…
Automating routine tasks is only part of AI’s value for healthcare finance. The bigger opportunity is helping teams spot emerging trends, understand performance drivers and forecast results earlier, giving leaders more time to act. But readiness remains a challenge. In…
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