Hospitals lose millions of dollars each year to decisions made long before a patient is discharged. The most consequential is often the first: whether to classify a patient as observation or inpatient — a single call that can swing reimbursement…
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For a century, primary care operated around the idea that the patient comes to the clinic during office hours to see their physician. The physician owns the relationship and develops deep ties to triage the patient wherever else they need…
Columbus (Ind.) Regional Health has promoted Heather Hubbard to vice president of enterprise services, according to a post on her LinkedIn page. Ms. Hubbard assumed her new role in September. She had served as vice president of administrative and revenue…
Cigna is launching a modernization and productivity initiative, expected to bring in $3 billion in savings by 2030. During the company’s Sept. 30 investor day call, CFO Ann Dennison said the multiyear program focuses on automating workflows, ensuring a future-ready…
St. Louis-based Ascension, which operates 91 wholly owned or consolidated hospitals across 36 states and Washington, D.C., has made a string of executive changes this year. Editor’s note: This webpage was created Sept. 23 and will be continually updated. The…
Most revenue cycle teams measure denials management the same way: overturn rate and dollars recovered. Those numbers matter, and a team that moves them is doing real work. But both are lagging indicators. They tell you what you won back—not…
Orlando (Fla.) Health has acquired Anniston, Ala.-based RMC Health System’s 375-bed hospital, outpatient facilities and specialty practices. The system joined Orlando Health’s Baptist Health system as Baptist Health Calhoun Hospital, according to an Oct. 1 news release shared with Becker’s. …
The Pennsylvania House has passed a bill that would require hospitals, clinicians and payers to disclose how they use AI and would keep humans responsible for final patient care decisions. The bill passed 144-59, with 41 Republicans joining all Democrats…
Epic is patching security flaws that could allow undetected access to patient records after testing its software with Anthropic’s Claude Mythos AI model, The New York Times reported. The EHR giant found that certain software configurations could let someone view…
Cleveland Clinic has named Rami Hazzi, MD, vice president and chief medical officer of Euclid (Ohio) Hospital, effective Oct. 12. The position is the hospital’s top leadership role. Dr. Hazzi has been with Cleveland Clinic for 13 years, most recently…