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Medicare Physician Payment Not Keeping Up

Following the US Senate Finance Committee’s recent white paper on Medicare physician payment reform, the graphic shows how Medicare payments to physicians have not kept pace with inflation.

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The Concerning Rise in Colorectal Cancer

A new study from the American Cancer Society revealed a startling phenomenon in colorectal cancer: cases are trending younger while the severity of diagnoses is increasing.

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How to Promote Financial Literacy Within Your Institution

Promoting financial literacy serves two important purposes. First, it makes everyone aware of the institution’s current financial health. Second, it makes everyone aware of what will be required to ensure the institution’s financial health over the long term.

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Preparing for Medicare Advantage’s Make-or-Break Moment

In recent years, the Medicare Advantage (MA) program enjoyed both rapid membership growth and positive attention from healthcare organizations and advocates. As of the beginning of 2024, 33.4 million Americans were enrolled in MA, up 7% from 2023.

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Gist Weekly: May 24, 2024

Telehealth company Hims & Hers unveils $199 weight-loss shots, CMS launches an emergency care complaint portal for patients, and the Senate Finance Committee signals interest in Medicare physician payment reforms.

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Hospital Nursing Shortage Appears to be Abating

After peaking in 2021, the average hospital’s registered nurse (RN) turnover and vacancy rates in 2023 have nearly returned to 2019 levels, at 18 percent and 10 percent respectively.

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Shruti Shah

Shruti is a Senior Vice President for Kaufman Hall’s Revenue and Operations Improvement practice. Her responsibilities include assessment analysis and implementation of operational improvement initiatives related to clinical documentation integrity and compliance, for providers, hospitals and health systems nationwide.

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Steward Files for Bankruptcy and It Feels All Too Familiar

Steward Health Care’s recent Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing is one of the largest health system bankruptcies in recent memory. Although Steward is a for-profit system, there are important lessons that not-for-profit health system leaders can learn from the Steward bankruptcy.

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Walmart’s Primary Care Failure Is Important and a Problem

Walmart’s failure as a healthcare provider points to some big problems in U.S. healthcare, including a difficult business model, an unfriendly reimbursement model, and a basic healthcare expense-to-revenue problem.

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Gist Weekly: May 17, 2024

Two Pennsylvania-based health systems sign a definitive merger agreement, and Ascension is hit by a ransomware attack.

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The State of State Physician Employee Noncompete Bans

With the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issuing a final rule that would ban noncompete agreements nationwide, the graphic below is our attempt to categorize the current status of complex state noncompete laws that affect physicians.

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