Healthcare News

CMS risk-adjustment payment freeze to hit high-cost insurers hardest

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​Rethinking rural healthcare: Rural hospitals look for help to survive

The gulf between rural hospitals' available beds and daily hospital admissions widens every year, causing rural providers to scale down. Without help from the government or larger providers, many more rural hospital closures are expected. 

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Would Americans Accept Putting Health Care on a Budget?

​The intuitive appeal of such a system is growing, and it’s getting a test in Maryland.

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​​​Physicians Call for Reduction in Medicare

‘Regulatory Complexity’

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Physician practices face too many regulatory burdens, according to the Medical Group Management

Association Regulatory Burden Survey.  Nearly half of respondents said they spend more than $40,000 per FTE physician, per year, to maintain compliance with federal regulations.

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More Patients Lag on Paying Hospital Bills in Full

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Findings from TransUnion Healthcare’s analysis on payment patterns between 2014 and 2016 include:

• “63 percent of hospital bills were $500 or less; of those hospital bills, 68 percent were not paid in full in 2016;”

• “14 percent of hospital bills were $3,000 or more; of those hospital bills, 99 percent were not paid in full in 2016;”

• “10 percent of hospital bills were $500 to $1,000; of those bills, 85 percent were not paid in full in
  2016.”

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