The Alarming Scale of Unnecessary Spine Surgeries
A groundbreaking analysis by the Lown Institute has revealed a disturbing trend in American healthcare: hospitals performed over 200,000 unnecessary back surgeries on older adults over a three-year…
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– Tennr, a company automating the labor-intensive workflows of referral-based care, has released its first Healthcare Provider Benchmark Report. The study uncovers a significant financial challenge: independent healthcare providers lose over…
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A new ASTP report says that 71% of hospitals used predictive AI tools in EHRs in 2024, mainly for outcomes, but increasingly for billing and scheduling.
Cleveland Clinic will expand its rollout of AI-powered sepsis…
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– According to the Experian Health 2025 State of Claims survey, healthcare providers are grappling with a persistent cycle of rising claim denials, data errors, and staffing shortages. The survey was…
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Meditech announces several AI enhancements to its MyHealth patient portal and Expanse EHR at its customer event, including the addition of chatbots and the integration of Commure’s AI-powered clinical documentation software with its Expanse…
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– Inbox Health, a leader in patient billing and support technology, has announced that it has secured $20 million in growth equity funding and debt led by Ten Coves Capital with…
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Ana Ponder, Director of RCM Solutions at Millennia
The medical debt regulation landscape is poised to change drastically over the next few years. Laws in Texas, New York, and New Jersey are key case studies…
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Rob Stuart, CEO, Claim.MD
When a major healthcare payment processor was hit by a ransomware attack in early 2024, medical practices across the country were thrown into chaos. Routine billing processes, like eligibility checks, claims…
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Ever wonder why EHRs seem stuck in the past—built for billing, patched with add-ons, and painful for clinicians? Oracle Health has taken a different route.In this interview, Seema Verma, EVP and General Manager of…
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In the spirit of “no good deed goes unpunished,” insurance giant Cigna Healthcare creates a new reimbursement policy that adds additional scrutiny for certain high-level evaluation and management codes, which could lead to those…
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