Abridge is launching its first product built specifically for the mid-revenue cycle. The San Francisco-based AI-native clinician intelligence platform is adding a pre-bill review capability built for clinical documentation integrity, coding and revenue cycle teams, according to a Sept. 14…
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Sam Hazen, CEO of Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare, joined an Aug. 28 meeting to discuss how challenges at the system’s Asheville, N.C.-based Mission Hospital are being addressed. The Western North Carolina Health Policy Initiative’s meeting also included Mission Hospital President…
Anthony Robbins, MD, a pioneer in health policy, died July 5 at 85, The New York Times reported. Dr. Robbins died of complications from long COVID, heart disease and Parkinson’s disease, his wife said. He graduated from the Yale School…
Shared decision-making is the latest gold standard in medicine, but some experts worry it’s veering too close to full patient autonomy, Medscape reported Sept. 14. “We’ve swung all the way to the other end, which is actually an inaccurate understanding…
The California Office of Health Care Affordability adopted a 3.5% annual spending growth cap for hospitals and is imposing high penalties for hospitals, physician groups and insurers who exceed the cap, CalMatters reported. Here is what to know. 1. Under…
Members of Doctors Council-SEIU began a four-day strike Sept. 14 at Allina Health’s Mercy Hospital campuses in Coon Rapids, Minn., and Fridley, Minn., according to a union news release shared with Becker’s. Hospice nurses represented by SEIU Healthcare Minnesota &…
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…
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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- 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…