Economics

This channel highlights factors that impact hospital and healthcare economics and revenue. This includes news on healthcare policies, reimbursement, marketing, business plans, mergers and acquisitions, supply chain, salaries, staffing, and the implementation of a cost-effective environment for patients and providers.

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Missouri Hospital Association's consumer website adds pricing data

The Missouri Hospital Association’s consumer-focused website, Focus on Hospitals, now offers pricing data for participating Missouri hospitals.

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NQF’s Measure Applications Partnership offers recommendations

The National Quality Forum’s Measure Applications Partnership (MAP) has submitted recommendations to the Department of Health and Human Services for approximately 140 performance measures under consideration for use in 16 federal healthcare programs.

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Proposed rule changes ACO benchmarks

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a proposed rule to update the methodology used to measure the performance of accountable care organizations (ACOs) in the Medicare Shared Savings Program.

Livanta Selects InterQual to Support its Medicare Utilization and Quality Care Reviews

The BFCC-QIO will use InterQual evidence-based criteria for two-midnight short-stay reviews.

Learn about the revamped eCQI Resource Center

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has reintroduced its eCQI Resource Center, which serves as a one-stop shop for the most current resources to support electronic clinical quality improvement.

Healthcare management platform Spreemo announces new VP

Spreemo, a New York-based Healthcare management platform, announced this week it has named Daniel Elgort, PhD, its new vice president of healthcare analytics. 

Epic, Mayo Clinic enter into $46M agreement for data center

After announcing its plans to switch to Epic EHR and revenue cycle systems, Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic now plans to sell the IT vendor its 62,000-square-foot data center.

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Bringing 'Moneyball' to healthcare

A big sign of just how much impact data analytics is having on healthcare is the announcement that one of the Major League Baseball executives from the "Moneyball"-era has joined the faculty of the Scripps Translational Science Institute (STSI). 

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