Search Sort by Newest to OldestOldest to NewestRelevanceA-ZZ-A Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Page 3 … Next page › Last page Last 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. Blog Gist Weekly: May 31, 2024 Ozempic trial shows the drug slows kidney disease progression, a blood-based colorectal cancer test is endorsed for FDA approval, and nursing home trade groups sue over the new staffing mandate. Blog 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. Infographic 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. Article 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. Infographic 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. Blog 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. Blog 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. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman Hospital Conversion Foundations: Keeping the Community Promise After a Transaction Closes The decision to partner with another health system is always a high-stakes decision for a board. The creation of a community foundation is one way to ensure that a health system’s focus on its community remains intact, with new potential to improve the lives of community residents. Article The State of State Physician Noncompete Bans With the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issuing a final rule last month that bans noncompete agreements nationwide, the graphic below is our attempt to categorize the current status of complex state noncompete laws that affect physicians. Infographic Gist Weekly: May 17, 2024 Two Pennsylvania-based health systems sign a definitive merger agreement, and Ascension is hit by a ransomware attack. Blog Optimizing 340B Participation Compliantly While “Waiting and Watching” New Developments Hospitals and health systems that participate in the federal 340B Drug Pricing Program are currently facing challenges on multiple fronts, including manufacturer restrictions and program audits, legal challenges, and constantly-evolving federal and state requirements for participation. Article Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Page 3 … Next page › Last page Last
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. Blog
Gist Weekly: May 31, 2024 Ozempic trial shows the drug slows kidney disease progression, a blood-based colorectal cancer test is endorsed for FDA approval, and nursing home trade groups sue over the new staffing mandate. Blog
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. Infographic
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. Article
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. Infographic
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. Blog
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. Blog
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. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
Hospital Conversion Foundations: Keeping the Community Promise After a Transaction Closes The decision to partner with another health system is always a high-stakes decision for a board. The creation of a community foundation is one way to ensure that a health system’s focus on its community remains intact, with new potential to improve the lives of community residents. Article
The State of State Physician Noncompete Bans With the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issuing a final rule last month that bans noncompete agreements nationwide, the graphic below is our attempt to categorize the current status of complex state noncompete laws that affect physicians. Infographic
Gist Weekly: May 17, 2024 Two Pennsylvania-based health systems sign a definitive merger agreement, and Ascension is hit by a ransomware attack. Blog
Optimizing 340B Participation Compliantly While “Waiting and Watching” New Developments Hospitals and health systems that participate in the federal 340B Drug Pricing Program are currently facing challenges on multiple fronts, including manufacturer restrictions and program audits, legal challenges, and constantly-evolving federal and state requirements for participation. Article