Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 24, 2023

AHA: MedPAC report on hospital finances 'misleading;' recommended 2024 pay bump 'totally insufficient' dmuoio Fri, 03/24/2023 - 15:39

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Hospital Pharmacy Europe

JANUARY 23, 2025

In a study comparing the performance of multiple trigger tools in identifying medication-related hospital readmissions, the OPERAM tool performed the best, identifying the highest number of both the total medication-related (re)admissions (MRRs) and potential preventable MRRs. 2024; Oct 9: DOI: 10.1111/jgs.19216. J Am Geriatr Soc.

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Hospitals 52

Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Moody’s Investor Services is forecasting stronger financials across the nonprofit hospital sector in 2024 thanks to upticks in reimbursement rates and volumes that will outpace continued labor expe | The ratings agency said it anticipates a 10% to 20% increase in nonprofit providers' median operating cash flow during the coming year.

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Hospitals 111

Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Nonprofit hospitals will continue to operate under a cloud of labor supply shortages and “pressured” margins into 2024, setting the coming 12 months up as another “make or break year” for the secto | Fitch Ratings' pessimistic 2024 outlook highlighted labor shortages, an uptick in union activity and potential second year of debt service covenant (..)

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Hospitals 133

Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 12, 2023

MedPAC calls for slight pay update to 2024 Medicare rates for hospitals, physicians. Thu, 01/12/2023 - 14:33.

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Hospitals 98

Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

A recommendation on the 2024 Measures Under Consideration list, brought forward by the Federation of American Hospitals (FAH), would add a quality measure in the Medicare Advantage (MA) star rating | The Federation of American Hospitals is pushing CMS for the inclusion of a star ratings quality measure that shows how often insurers overturn or uphold (..)

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Insurance Hospitals 128

STAT

JANUARY 15, 2025

Qualified Health and Collate , two early stage generative AI startups, targeting hospitals and pharma respectively, each announced $30 million in funding. According to data published this week by advisory Rock Health, startups using AI made up 37% of 2024’s digital health funding.

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Hospitals 125

Fierce Healthcare

JULY 23, 2024

HCA Healthcare's stock jumped Tuesday morning as the hospital chain reported better-than-expected performance in the second quarter and boosted its 2024 guidance. |

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Hospitals 111

IDStewardship

JANUARY 8, 2025

In Saudi Arabia the program was established in 1997 at King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre (KFSH&RC) in Riyadh [3]. Post-Graduate Year-1Pharmacy Residents, Taif Health Cluster, Saudi Arabia Mentored by: Sameer Alzaidi, Pharm.D.,

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Health and Personal Care Stores Patient Care Hospitals 334

Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Broadly speaking, the hospital sector is a much stronger state financially than it was in 2022 or even early 2023 amid industry reports of higher medians and margin improvements being shared by sev | A review of hospitals' 2023 operating numbers show 40% are still losing money going into 2024 and that high-performing hospitals are "effectively (..)

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Hospitals 119

STAT

JANUARY 19, 2024

Hospitals aren’t usually in the business of selling technology tools. Selling tech isn’t entirely new: a subset of hospitals and academic centers have been licensing out risk models and health record tools for decades. At the J.P.

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STAT

MAY 20, 2024

STAT took a look at 20 large nonprofit health systems and found that all but four reported higher operating and net margins in the first three months of 2024 compared with the same period in 2023. Hospitals are seeing more patients and cutting down on the expensive contract labor they relied on during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Insurance Hospitals 118

Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 12, 2023

Industry hospital groups are pushing the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to consider a higher annual pay bump and to shed some light on why it believes the number of uninsured patients | Public comments submitted to CMS by the hospital lobby were critical of a "woefully inadequate" 2.8%

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Hospitals 121

STAT

JANUARY 8, 2024

SAN FRANCISCO — If you learned anything about nonprofit hospitals on the first day of the J.P. Making money outside of patient care — or “revenue diversification,” if you prefer industry jargon — has always made appearances on hospital slides at the annual investor conference in San Francisco.

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Hospitals Patient Care Insurance 138

Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 19, 2024

Traditional Medicare’s bar for reimbursing long-term care hospitals (LTCH) for severely ill, “high-cost outlier” patients has spiked under current payment policies. |

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Hospitals 116

STAT

OCTOBER 7, 2024

“I’ve won 10 to 20 awards in the last 20 years, but never had a press conference with cameras and nothing like this,” Ruvkun, who along with Victor Ambros received the 2024 award in medicine or physiology on Monday, said at a press conference at Massachusetts General Hospital.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 18, 2024

Persistent headwinds and depressed operating margins means that 2024 could bring more of the same.

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Hospitals 113

STAT

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Yet amid this endless cycle of anxiety, one place surprisingly gave me solace: the hospital. As a long-time patient of Texas Children’s Hospital, I saw early on how health care stood apart — a field untouched by the grasp of immigration status, a space where humanity held precedence over nationality. Beginning Nov.

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Hospitals 112

Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

PE-backed anesthesiology group ends contracts with 5 Colorado hospitals, phases out non-competes to resolve monopoly inquiry dmuoio Tue, 02/27/2024 - 15:40

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Hospitals 116

STAT

JANUARY 3, 2024

Hospitals and clinics are expecting a slightly better 2024 compared to last year thanks to a return to mostly in-person care, patients resuming preventive visits and the gradual easing of labor costs and shortages.

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Hospitals Insurance 122

Fierce Healthcare

JULY 13, 2023

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released its proposed Medicare payment rates and policy updates under the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Ambulatory S | The CY 2024 OPPS and ASC Payment System Proposed Rule includes a 2.8%

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Hospitals 98

Hospital Pharmacy Europe

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) has received instruction by the UK Government to close its temporary Covid-19 register in March 2024. Those who do not want to continue to work as a pharmacist or pharmacy technician after that time will see their temporary registration closed automatically on 1 April 2024.

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Hospitals 105

STAT

AUGUST 4, 2023

The federal government will pay hospitals that treat poor and uninsured patients almost $1 billion less next year, a cut that’s more than eight times larger than the one proposed in April. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services originally said it would cut payments meant to help safety net hospitals by $115 million in 2024.

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Insurance Hospitals 98

Pharmaceutical Technology

APRIL 28, 2024

Artificial intelligence tools can be used for infection control through facial recognition systems designed to identify proper face mask use within hospitals.

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Hospitals 119

STAT

JANUARY 7, 2024

Nonprofit hospitals often get overshadowed at the J.P. But hospitals are still the largest part of America’s health care economy, commanding nearly a third of the country’s $4.7 But hospitals are still the largest part of America’s health care economy, commanding nearly a third of the country’s $4.7

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Hospitals Insurance 114

STAT

JULY 13, 2023

Physicians are in line to absorb more Medicare cuts next year, while hospital outpatient departments and surgery centers will get billions in new revenue. for 2024, the federal government said Thursday. The base figure that determines how much physicians get paid by Medicare will decrease by 3.3%

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Hospitals 97

European Pharmaceutical Review

JANUARY 30, 2024

The European Medicine Agency’s human medicines committee (CHMP) recommended marketing authorisations for the regulatory approval of three medicines at its January 2024 meeting last week. CHMP’s September 2023 meeting highlights The post CHMP meeting highlights: January 2024 appeared first on European Pharmaceutical Review.

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Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Shifting targets, indirect angles of attack and increasing regulatory expectations await hospitals and health systems in the coming year, cybersecurity experts say. The danger of cybercrime and security breaches looms over the healthcare industry like a slow-moving storm.

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Hospitals 132

Fierce Pharma

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Shortly before the holiday, Hospira announced two separate recalls over the potential presence of glass particulates in vials and syringes of certain hospital meds. . | After a year plagued by recalls, Pfizer’s sterile injectables unit Hospira seems no closer to righting the ship over its glass-contamination woes.

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Hospitals 93

Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Two of southern California’s largest pediatric providers are planning to come together in 2024. | The southern California pediatric health systems say their 10-plus years of clinical and research collaboration have paved the road for integration into a new entity, to be called Rady Children's Health.

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Hospitals 75

Hospital Pharmacy Europe

JANUARY 4, 2024

The supply of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs) is not expected to return to normal until at least the end of 2024, the UK Government has confirmed. The post GLP-1 receptor agonist shortage warning extended by UK Government until end of 2024 appeared first on Hospital Pharmacy Europe.

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Hospital Pharmacy Europe

AUGUST 7, 2024

Karl-Johan Lindner and Marie Halvarsson, from the pharmacy at Västerås Hospital in Sweden, describe a new approach to improve the categorisation of medication errors that uses the skills of hospital pharmacists to reclassify reported incidents based on a given medication process. One million injections or infusions and 1.7

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Hospitals Documentation Medical Records Dosage 98

Hospital Pharmacy Europe

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The study found that the overall prevalence of PIMs was moderate but varied considerably between hospitals and also revealed a potential missed opportunity to optimise medication use within this setting. women) across 16 hospitals in Spain. of the PIMs initiated during the hospital stay were still prescribed, which fell to 2.6%

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Hospitals 52

STAT

DECEMBER 28, 2023

STAT’s taking a look at some of the recent health policy trends that states will start to implement in 2024. For most states, the new year means a new legislative session.

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Insurance Hospitals 115

STAT

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Starting this year, private Medicare plans have to cover their members’ hospitalizations at the higher inpatient rate if their doctors predict they’ll have to stay beyond two midnights. For patients with MA plans, it could mean better access and smaller out-of-pocket costs after a hospitalization.

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Insurance Hospitals 127

STAT

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The overture to the American Heart Association’s conference, coming as the organization celebrates its 100th year, began with Valentin Fuster of Mount Sinai Hospital lamenting the predicted shift in overall cardiovascular disease burden,  worsening from now until 2050. “We have a problem,” he said.

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Hospitals 123

Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Below is a roundup of payer-centric news headlines you may have missed during the month of November 2024. |

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