The debate over hospital mergers and acquisitions is too narrowly focused on commercial insurance pricing, overlooking how deals — and blocked deals — affect the majority of hospital patients, according to the American Hospital Association, citing a new report from…
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NYC Health + Hospitals runs 11 acute care hospitals and more than 70 patient care locations, making it the largest public health system in the country. Standardizing anything across that footprint is difficult. Standardizing emergency department utilization review is harder.…
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- Joshua Moskovitz, MD, MPH, MBA, Medical Director of Utilization Management, NYC Health + Hospitals
- Joy Osa Uzamere, DNP, RN CCM-BC, Director, Emergency Department Utilization Review Care Management, NYC Health + Hospitals
- Rob Shutter, LMSW (he/him/his), Director of Utilization Management, NYC Health + Hospitals
Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha is raising new concerns about the finances of CharterCARE Health of Rhode Island, the nonprofit system formed when the Atlanta-based Centurion Foundation completed its acquisition of two hospitals in the state six months ago,…
In 2024, 71.5% of adults reported experiencing fatigue at least some days in the past three months, a Sept. 3 CDC report found. The CDC used 2024 National Health Interview Survey data to estimate fatigue symptoms among about 27,000 adults…
Every patient recovering in an inpatient bed who could safely recover at home is a patient in the wrong setting. Meanwhile, a patient in need of acute care waits for a bed. Arlington, Va.-based VHC Health addressed this challenge by…
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- James Meenan, FACHE, CCM, Associate Vice President of Population Health, VHC Health
- Russell Graney, Founder, Aidin (a part of LeanTaaS)
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay Sept. 12 calling for a deliberate slowdown in AI capability development, a position that carries direct implications for health systems that have already deployed Claude or are evaluating AI platforms for clinical and…
More than 1 million people in the U.S. are living with diagnosed HIV, yet prevention still sits largely in specialty settings. CDC survey data shows how often testing and pre-exposure prophylaxis conversations are missed even when patients do reach care.…
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Every day, in healthcare practices across the country, calls go unanswered, appointments get missed, and revenue quietly ages into bad debt. One 100-location dental service organization recovered more than $19 million after a full analysis of its patient interactions surfaced…
Kimberly Cooper has been named CFO of Union County General Hospital in Clayton, N.M., according to a Sept. 12 LinkedIn post. The facility is part of Plano, Texas-based Community Hospital Corporation’s family of hospitals. Prior to her new role, Ms.…
Pharmacies have been seeing compelling interest in Medicare’s GLP-1 Bridge program since its July launch, NPR first reported. The demonstration, designed to give eligible Medicare Part D beneficiaries access to certain GLP-1s at a fixed monthly cost, will run through…