Some 73% of medication reconciliation errors happen as patients move between care settings, patient safety organization ECRI said in a Sept. 16 report flagging care transitions as one of healthcare’s most dangerous moments. The figure comes from an ECRI analysis…
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St. Louis-based Ascension has reached an agreement to transfer full ownership of its co-owned Arizona managed care health plan, Mercy Care, to CVS Health subsidiary Aetna, a spokesperson for Ascension confirmed with Becker’s. Ascension co-owns the plan with San Francisco-based…
East Adams Rural Healthcare, a Ritzville, Wash.-based rural emergency hospital, has selected Azalea Health as its new EHR vendor. East Adams moved off its previous enterprise EHR platform after determining the system was too complex and costly for an organization…
The U.S. cancer death rate declined 35% between 2015 and 2024, averting more than 4.8 million deaths, according to the American Association for Cancer Research’s 16th annual Cancer Progress Report, published Sept. 16. While the overall cancer death rate continues…
The proposal for New York City-based Maimonides Health to join NYC Health + Hospitals’ received unanimous approval from the New York State Public Health and Health Planning Council Sept. 17. Five things to know: 1. The transaction still needs approval…
Flint, Mich.-based Insight Health Systems is set to take over shuttered Chicago-based Weiss Memorial Hospital and Oak Park, Ill.-based West Suburban Medical Center. Weiss Memorial closed Aug. 8, 2025, and West Suburban shuttered June 11 after the facility’s last functional…
A denial nobody had time to appeal. A fax that never got indexed to the right encounter. An authorization pending for three weeks. Each one is revenue your organization has already earned and is not collecting. None of these is…
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Cleveland-based University Hospitals named Melissa Cohen vice president of venture development and investment at UH Ventures, the health system’s innovation and commercialization arm. In the newly created role, Ms. Cohen will oversee the design, operation and deployment of UH Ventures’…
Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health’s contact center fields about 260,000 calls a month, roughly 80% to 90% of them tied to primary care clinics across the 34-hospital system. That volume presents more than just a challenge. “We see a massive…
Amid mounting reimbursement complexity, rising denial rates and staffing challenges, organizations ranging from independent rural hospitals to large, multi-hospital systems are striking partnerships with revenue cycle management firms. Here are nine hospitals and health systems that have outsourced revenue cycle…