The Concerning Rise in Colorectal Cancer
A new study from the American Cancer Society revealed a startling phenomenon in colorectal cancer: cases are trending younger while the severity of diagnoses is increasing.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Shruti Shah
Shruti is a Senior Vice President for Kaufman Hall’s Revenue and Operations Improvement practice. Her responsibilities include assessment analysis and implementation of operational improvement initiatives related to clinical documentation integrity and compliance, for providers, hospitals and health systems nationwide.
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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.
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Find the Right Partner: Demystifying the Investment Consultant Search Process
Terri Wareham and Bobby Bruning joined a Finance, Administration & Operations Group (FAOG) webinar, where they highlighted best practices and key considerations for an investment consultant search process.
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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.
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Gist Weekly: May 17, 2024
Two Pennsylvania-based health systems sign a definitive merger agreement, and Ascension is hit by a ransomware attack.
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The State of State Physician Employee Noncompete Bans
With the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issuing a final rule that would ban noncompete agreements nationwide, the graphic below is our attempt to categorize the current status of complex state noncompete laws that affect physicians.
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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.
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