Roughly two-thirds of Medicare’s improper payments1 trace back to missing or insufficient documentation. For a decade, the industry’s answer has been to fix that downstream in the form of better queries, faster attestations, and bigger appeal teams. Now that CMS…
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For a decade, cardiology’s exposure to value-based payment has run largely through the Merit-based Incentive Payment System, or MIPS — a program that scores group practices and moves payments modestly. The next model raises the stakes. On Jan. 1, 2027,…
Lawrence, Kan.-based LMH Health and four other independent Kansas health systems have formed Astra Health, a regional collaboration to help improve patient care, strengthen access to specialty services and deliver affordable healthcare options. The collaboration was founded by LMH Health,…
For most of the 2000s, workplace wellness was sold as a way to bend the claims cost curve. A 2010 Harvard Business Review article made the bullish case, using Johnson & Johnson’s program as its example, and wellness moved from…
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AI-powered referral management company Tennr has named two major healthcare heavyweights as industry advisors: Toby Cosgrove, MD, former president and CEO of Cleveland Clinic, and Cindy Hundorfean, former president and CEO of Pittsburgh-based Allegheny Health Network. Both advisors will work…
China is becoming a destination for U.S. patients seeking CAR-T cell therapy, according to a Sept. 6 report from The Wall Street Journal. “China has basically done to CAR-T cell therapy the same thing that it’s done to other industries,…
OpenEvidence said its new Darwin model has become the first AI system in history to score 100% on MedQA, a medical AI benchmark. Darwin also topped other major medical AI benchmarks, scoring 72.8% on MedXpertQA, 82.7% on HealthBench Professional and…
WellSpan Health, a 12-hospital system based in York, Pa., said Sept. 8 it has promoted David Gasperack, DO, to system senior vice president and chief medical officer for WellSpan Medical Group. Dr. Gasperack has served WellSpan for more than two…
Novo Nordisk has secured a permanent injunction restricting LifeRxMD from making certain claims involving Ozempic, Wegovy and Rybelsus in its marketing of compounded drugs. The injunction was entered as part of a confidential settlement between Novo Nordisk and LifeRxMD, according…
Healthcare supply chain has evolved over the years as the landscape increases in complexity. Today, supply chain leaders play a critical role in removing operational barriers that impact clinicians, patients, and organizational performance. From ensuring products are available when and…
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- Ana Victoria Sanchez, VP of Supply Chain & Support Services, Virtua
- Julio Carrillo, VP of Logistics, Baylor Scott & White
- Wes Crampton, President, MedSpeed
- Eric Tritch, SVP/Chief Supply Chain Officer, University of Chicago Medicine