by Jessica Casebolt | Jul 16, 2024 | Providers, Tea Leaves
Dr. Bruce Scott, the newly appointed president of the American Medical Association, aims to address several key challenges during his one-year term. His primary focus is reducing health care reliance on non-physician providers, a trend he believes undermines the...
by Jessica Casebolt | Jul 16, 2024 | Providers, Tea Leaves
Nineteen rural Minnesota hospitals and their 50-plus clinics have banded together to form a clinically integrated network (CIN) serving more than 750,000 people. The so-called Headwaters High-Value Network, announced Thursday, stitches the independent hospitals’...
by Jessica Casebolt | Jul 16, 2024 | Providers, Tea Leaves
For-profit hospitals received lower marks on “socially responsible” metrics compared to nonprofits in an annual index from the Lown Institute released on Tuesday. For-profit hospitals were overrepresented in the lowest quality rankings on the index, which measured...
by Jessica Casebolt | Jul 16, 2024 | Providers, Tea Leaves
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is locking in its enforcement strategy to keep health care providers from blocking access to electronic health information. On Monday morning, the department released its final rule outlining disincentives for eligible...
by Jessica Casebolt | Jun 21, 2024 | Providers, Tea Leaves
In a significant legal decision, a federal district court in Fort Worth, Texas, ruled against the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), stating that HHS had exceeded its authority by issuing guidance that warned hospitals against tracking visitors to their...
by Jessica Casebolt | Jun 21, 2024 | Providers, Tea Leaves
Health care providers are grappling with unprecedentedly high labor costs amid ongoing challenges that show no signs of abating. To cope, hospitals and health systems are resorting to innovative strategies such as hefty investments in talent acquisition and retention,...
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