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By Selena Chavis for For the Record An industry collaboration recently proposed codes designed to better support whole-person care. There’s a new buzz phrase taking health care by storm: social determinants of health (SDOH). Linked by researchers to approximately 80%…
By Rebecca Pifer for Healthcare Dive Dive Brief: Physician burnout costs the healthcare industry between $2.6 billion and $6.3 billion each year, according to a new study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. The researchers calculated a baseline of…
By Rebecca Pifer for Healthcare Dive Dive Brief: A CMS innovation center demonstration that pairs payment incentives with a home-based primary care delivery model showed mixed results in terms of Medicare cost savings for chronically ill beneficiaries, according to data…
By Jackie Drees for Becker’s Hospital Review More physicians (44 percent) believe that EHRs have hurt quality of care in their workplace than the 40 percent who said the technology has improved it, according to a recent Medscape poll released May…
By ACDIS for CDI Blog In addition to your normal travel essentials, there are a couple more items you should plan to bring with you to the ACDIS conference in Kissimmee, Florida. Business cards: Networking is one of the most…
Ayla Ellison for Becker’s Hospital Review Astria Health, a three-hospital health system based in Sunnyside, Wash., filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on May 6. Astria plans to use the bankruptcy process to restructure its finances, enter into a plan…
By Rebecca Pifer for Healthcare Dive Dive Brief: Aetna’s app for the Apple Watch is now live, with about 250,000 and 300,000 downloads available during the initial rollout. Employers can choose to buy the app as a plan benefit or…
By L. Carol Ritchie for NPR For most of his career, Dr. Stephen Trzeciak was not a big believer in the “touchy-feely” side of medicine. As a specialist in intensive care and chief of medicine at Cooper University Health Care…
By Lisa A. Eramo, MA for For the Record Why Your Hospital’s Reputation Depends—at Least Partially—on Accurate Pneumonia Coding These days, it takes seconds for patients to view mortality and readmissions data on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’…
By Jeff Lagasse for Healthcare Finance A healthy revenue cycle can’t stay healthy for long without a strong collections process, and collections can’t stay strong unless there’s money to collect. That means health systems are increasingly behaving like brands, seeking…