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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 ...
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Improving the Patient Financial Experience Throughout the Patient Journey While many healthcare providers believe that improving the patient financial experience is a critical step for their organization, few have done so successfully. Read this brief to …
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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,
Trends 2025: AI in healthcare progressing despite reimbursement …
Dec 26, 2024 · Artificial intelligence is poised to become a major force in healthcare. The technology is developing at breakneck speed, and both payers and providers are examining the potential use cases, with one survey from November showing 73% of organizations plan on growing their financial commitments to the technology. But because AI is so new, there are still some knots left to be untangled.
Hospitals confront mounting reimbursement challenges and …
Nov 30, 2023 · 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 ...
Healthcare expenditures rise on increased coverage and utilization
Dec 18, 2024 · 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 ...
Lower reimbursement linked to sagging margins, healthcare CFOs …
Mar 18, 2024 · 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.
Health systems see margin gains, though expenses still high
Dec 3, 2024 · 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
Nov 5, 2024 · 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.
Moody's upgrades healthcare outlook from negative to stable for …
Nov 9, 2023 · Moody's Investors Service has revised its 2024 outlook for the not-for-profit and public healthcare sector to stable from negative, driven in large part by a decrease in labor costs.. While hospitals will continue to grapple with high expenses because of a shortage of skilled labor, particularly nurses, Moody's predicts that the growth in expenses will slow as hospitals make greater efforts to ...