What You Should Know:
– Hospitals and health systems are seeing some signs of stabilization and margin improvement, but challenges around workforce, expenses and patient access persist according to Kaufman Hall’s 2023 State of Healthcare Performance Improvement report.
–…
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Eric Demers, CEO of Madaket Health
The No Surprises Act (NSA) is a bipartisan effort to protect patients from unexpected healthcare expenses. This law is good news for patients, with a KFF poll showing that…
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The VA and 13 health systems pledge to share data to improve veteran healthcare via three objectives:
Accurately identify veterans when they seek care from community providers.
Connect veterans with resources that promote health…
While hospitals’ operating margins are still in a worse place than they were before the pandemic, 2023 is ending as a much better year for hospital finance than 2022, according to a report that…
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What You Should Know:
– Hospital financial performance has stabilized in 2023 compared to last year, according to the latest National Hospital Flash Report from Kaufman Hall.
– The latest Hospital Flash Report finds the median calendar year-to-date…
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What You Should Know: Rising healthcare expenses, lack of certainty over costs and financial support and poor coordination between providers and payers have caused consumers to feel more stressed than ever before about their…
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Historically, the healthcare industry has had a reputation of countercyclicality. The idea here is that people are always going to need healthcare services and products, so the sector is less vulnerable to the effects…
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Baby tech company Owlet reported a drop in revenue to $13.1 million in the second quarter of 2023, compared to $18.3 million for the same period last year, though it reached a milestone of…
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InComm Payments announced it has acquired Zenda, an AI-powered HSA and FSA solution. With aligned organizational goals of “helping more people better manage their health expenses and livelihoods,” the acquisition of Zenda…
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The country’s three largest for-profit health systems — HCA Healthcare, Tenet Healthcare and Community Health Systems (CHS) — all posted their second quarter earnings recently. HCA and Tenet reported net incomes for the quarter,…
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