Healthcare Dive

MARCH 4, 2024

Lenient regulatory enforcement has led hospitals to disregard price transparency requirements, according to watchdog group Patient Rights Advocate.

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Healthcare Dive

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Hospitals and nursing unions clash on what’s driving sluggish application rates for open registered nurse positions at hospitals — a lack of qualified candidates or a lack of interest.

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Nurses Hospitals 328

Healthcare Dive

APRIL 22, 2024

CEO Tim Hingtgen told investors in February that divestitures could yield more than $1 billion for the hospital operator.

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Hospitals 162

Healthcare Dive

APRIL 11, 2024

Regulators said payments to hospitals would increase $3.2 However, the American Hospital Association called the hike “woefully inadequate.” billion in 2025 under the proposed rule.

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Hospitals 182

Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles has partnered with Vital to integrate an artificial intelligence-driven tool called ERAdvisor that can improve the patient-family experience with clarity and predictability. Vital said it offers four AI tools to serve hospital emergency departments, inpatient stays and ongoing care.

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Healthcare Dive

JANUARY 9, 2024

The study could support extending acute hospital care at home, researchers said. Currently, a pandemic-era waiver for the programs is set to expire at the end of the year.

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Hospitals 312

Healthcare Dive

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The attack against the University of Vermont Medical Center in 2020 cost the hospital millions of dollars and limited operations for weeks.

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Hospitals Ransomware 285

Healthcare Dive

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The American Hospital Association and the Federation of American Hospitals sent letters to Congress this week opposing a bill that would equalize payments for drugs administered in outpatient clinics.

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Hospitals 308

Healthcare Dive

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Under the new definition, hospitals can only receive disproportionate share hospital Medicaid reimbursements for beneficiaries who are primarily insured by the safety-net program.

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Medicaid Medicaid Hospitals 254

Healthcare Dive

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The latest divestiture comes as the Dallas-based for-profit has sold other hospitals while it reduces its debt load.

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Hospitals 306

Healthcare Dive

JANUARY 5, 2024

More than 90% of hospitals posted files at least partially compliant with price transparency requirements in 2023, according to a new report from Turquoise Health.

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Hospitals 271

Healthcare Dive

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The rules, which would require facilities to develop response plans and hire a chief information security officer, aim to safeguard hospitals from growing threats and keep them operating during an attack.

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Hospitals 298

Healthcare Dive

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The agency’s plans include working with Congress to receive funding to support hospitals’ security infrastructures as the sector faces the growing threat of cyberattacks.

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Hospitals 333

Healthcare Dive

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Despite widespread support from healthcare workers and hospital associations, federal regulations protecting hospital workers have previously failed to advance in Congress.

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Hospitals 306

Healthcare Dive

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Financial challenges at rural hospitals — driven by reimbursement problems — are leading facilities to shutter labor and delivery wards, according to a new report.

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Hospitals 298

Healthcare Dive

JANUARY 30, 2024

In a new report, the credit agency said some hospitals may never reach traditional healthy operating margins. The sector's recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic has been slower than expected.

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Healthcare Dive

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Find out how an NYC hospital system improved care, enhanced the patient experience and reduced admin staff workload by modernizing the check-in process.

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Hospitals 317

Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Covenant Health expanded its high acuity care hospital-at-home program in Knoxville, Tennessee, on Tuesday. Patient Ron Slone of Farragut, Tennessee, said he was elated to be home and that his home hospital supplies were already set up before he was transported back. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 18, 2024

When healthcare staff approach a hospital room, it’s important to know basic things about the patient like their preferred language, whether they’re in isolation, or whether they’re not supposed to eat (an NPO order). This has a great impact on patient satisfaction and how they feel about their experience at the hospital.

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Hospitals Patient Satisfaction Nurses 102

Healthcare Dive

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The study raises new questions about the dependability of hospital pricing, and builds on a mountain of research finding wide variance in pricing between different hospitals — and within the same facility.

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Hospitals 340

Healthcare Dive

MARCH 21, 2024

Insurers could increase claims denials and engage in aggressive contract negotiations with hospitals as profitability in the popular plans declines.

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Hospitals 244

Healthcare Dive

JANUARY 10, 2024

While slim operating margins continue to challenge hospitals, experts predict providers will trim unnecessary expenses and focus on strategic labor investments.

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Hospitals 204

Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

China Medical University Hospital is leveraging Google Cloud's generative AI to support its doctors in providing cancer care. " WHY IT MATTERS CMUH is an early adopter of MedLM among university hospitals in Asia. Among its noteworthy applications of AI is the Intelligent Anti-Microbial System (i.A.M.S.),

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Hospitals Electronic Medical Records Licensing Doctors 219

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 3, 2024

Hospital patients with conditions like pneumonia, dehydration and heart failure have been shown to experience shorter recovery times with fewer complications when they receive more cost-effective healthcare at home – and many health systems have been preparing for this future.

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Hospitals Medicaid Medicaid Medicare 142

Healthcare Dive

JANUARY 16, 2024

The deal would create a four-hospital system in New Jersey.

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Hospitals 324

Healthcare Dive

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The suit alleges Salem Community Hospital and Perry Johnson & Associates waited months before informing affected individuals. The breach may have exposed the data of nearly nine million people across the country.

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Hospitals 278

Healthcare Dive

JANUARY 23, 2024

Hospital Sisters Health System is shuttering operations in Western Wisconsin as nonprofits struggle to rebound from pandemic-related challenges.

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Hospitals 264

Healthcare Dive

DECEMBER 21, 2022

“We are pulling back the curtain and letting the sunshine in on hospital and nursing home ownership because it is what the public deserves,” HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra said Tuesday in a statement.

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Healthcare Dive

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The report from the Chair of the Senate HELP Committee calls for more federal oversight into nonprofit hospitals' charity care, accusing the systems of providing "paltry amounts" of charity care

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Hospitals 290

Healthcare Dive

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Researchers reviewed almost 300 pieces of literature on 340B and found some studies suggested hospitals were using savings from the program for purposes “seemingly unrelated” to patient care.

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Hospitals 297

Healthcare Dive

APRIL 11, 2024

One of the nation’s largest hospital landlords will pay down its debt load with the proceeds, executives said.

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Hospitals 162

Healthcare Dive

OCTOBER 19, 2023

A state hospital association says the updated charity care guidance, which would require facilities to offer subsidized care for patients regardless of residency, risks making Washington a “medical tourism destination."

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Hospitals 311

Healthcare Dive

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

As extreme weather events caused by climate change ramp up in frequency, hospitals are struggling with financial and data challenges in disaster planning.

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Hospitals 306

Healthcare Dive

JANUARY 26, 2023

Medicaid eligibility checks beginning in April will likely curb hospital revenue and enrollment growth for payers, Moody's Investors Service said in a report.

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Medicaid Medicaid Hospitals 306

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 25, 2024

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services just released data on its Acute Hospital Care at Home initiative , which thus far has admitted 11,159 patients suffering from respiratory infections, heart failure and severe sepsis. You contend CMS's Acute Hospital Care at Home program needs scalability to survive. Please elaborate.

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Hospitals Health Outcomes Medicaid Medicaid 161

Healthcare Dive

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

It's Tenet's latest hospital sale as the operator looks to pare down its debt.

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Hospitals 299