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Healthcare Finance provides timely and in-depth coverage of the challenges faced by healthcare providers and payers in light of skyrocketing healthcare costs, regulatory developments and diminishing reimbursements. Helmed by an experienced team of independent editors and journalists, we deliver news, analysis, educational content to an audience of senior healthcare financial managers and ...
Hospitals confront mounting reimbursement challenges and …
2023年11月30日 · Escalating reimbursement delays and declining cash reserves are placing hospitals and health systems across the nation in a precarious financial predicament, according to data from Syntellis Performance Solutions' analysis of 1,300 hospitals.. The findings, published in partnership with the American Hospital Association, underscore the pressing need for measures aimed at alleviating financial ...
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Three rating agencies collectively downgraded 95 facilities and upgraded 37 in 2024, compared to 116 and ...
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Insurers and government payers are having to make major adjustments as well. This section highlights Healthcare Finance’s coverage on topics including benefit design, Medicare and Medicaid, risk management,
Telehealth gets short extension, physician pay is cut in spending bill
2024年12月21日 · Telehealth gets short extension, physician pay is cut in spending bill Stripped out of the final bill is a provision to prevent the 2.8% Medicare pay cut to physicians.
Healthcare expenditures rise on increased coverage and utilization
2024年12月18日 · Healthcare spending is higher than before the COVID-19 pandemic and is being driven by increases in insurance coverage and utilization, according to new analysis released Wednesday by the Office of the Actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and published by Health Affairs.. In 2023, healthcare spending in the United States reached $4.9 trillion and increased 7.5%, growing ...
Health systems see margin gains, though expenses still high
2024年12月3日 · Health systems in the U.S. saw slight margin gains in October following three months of declines, while operating margins for individual hospitals narrowed and expenses remained high, according to new data published by Strata Decision Technology.. Significant increases in drug costs contributed to higher nonlabor expenses, as drug expenses rose 15.2% and total nonlabor expenses increased 10% ...
Home health agencies get half a percent pay increase
2024年11月5日 · Home Health agencies get a 0.5% payment increase in the 2025 Home Health Prospective Payment System final rule.. CMS estimates that Medicare payments to home health agencies in 2025 would increase in the aggregate by 0.5%, or $85 million, compared to 2024.
Lower reimbursement linked to sagging margins, healthcare CFOs …
2024年3月18日 · Eighty four percent of health systems cite lower reimbursement from payers as a top cause of low operating margins, according to a report published by the Healthcare Financial Management Association and Eliciting Insights, a healthcare strategy and market research company.. Further exacerbating health system margin struggles is the increased administrative burden placed on providers.
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2025年1月13日 · Gaining Actionable Insight into Financial Systems and Areas Impacting the Revenue Cycle. Hospital systems across the country are looking to streamline their billing and collection processes to become more efficient and better compete in their markets.