CMS proposes to implement two separate conversion factors: one for qualifying alternative payment model participants and one for physicians and practitioners who are not qualified participants. The ...

Government-run health care programs fueled the rise of Centene Corp., but cuts to federal assistance could cause it to slide. Centene has grown to be the largest Medicaid managed care provider in the ...

Medicare is not authorized by law to fine rehab hospitals for safety rule violations, even ones involving deaths uncovered during inspections, as it has done with nearly 8,000 nursing homes during the ...

At the HFMA conference content director and former CFO Rick Gundling gave members a five step framework for ethical decision-making, a simple checklist to ensure leaders are looking at their decisions ...

In a trend across the country, many hospital morgues have been overrun since the first surge of the coronavirus pandemic. Increased decedent release time not only creates a burden for families but ...

President Donald Trump's spending bill is set to raise administrative costs and make managing costs more difficult for insurers like UnitedHealthcare and CVS Health's Aetna that operate Medicaid ...

Hospitals are bracing for the impact from the Medicaid cuts in President Trump's sweeping spending and tax cut law. While most of the cuts won’t happen immediately, rural facilities in particular say ...

Cases of COVID-19 are now likely growing in 25 states, according to estimates published by the CDC, as this year's summer wave of the virus appears to be getting underway. The agency's modeling ...

Providers can't just sit back and wait for their credibility to be restored—they need to proactively build it back themselves ...

In this episode of HL Shorts UVA Health's CFO Stephanie Schnittger shares advice for other fellow CFOs on how to navigate the ...

Improved access to care is the most significant value associated with telehealth services, this new chief physician officer says.

Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. has taken a major step forward in its bid to go private after it announced that at the Company's Special Meeting of Shareholders, WBA shareholders had approved the ...