May 2019

Highest-paid CEOs in 2018: Who made the list from healthcare

By Emily Rappleye for Becker’s Hospital Review Thirty-two healthcare CEOs made The New York Times and Equilar’s 2018 ranking of highest-paid CEOs in 2018. Of those 32, three executives led some of the nation’s largest for-profit hospital systems: King of Prussia, Pa.-based Universal Health Services, Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare and Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare. The full…

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Physician burnout costs industry $4.6B annually

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 about $4.6 billion in costs from turnover, reduced productivity and other burnout-related factors. The study…

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CMS home-based primary care model yields mixed results

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 from the first four years of the test. The reward payment structure had some success…

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Nearly half of physicians think EHRs have decreased quality of care, survey finds

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 1. Medscape surveyed 273 U.S. clinicians — 207 physicians and 66 nurses and advanced practice…

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Washington health system files for bankruptcy, cites issues with revenue cycle vendor

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 of reorganization with its creditors and replace its billing company, according to TV station KIMA.…

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Of Viral Importance

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’ Hospital Compare website (www.medicare.gov/hospitalcompare). With a few clicks of the mouse, they can—and frequently do—draw…

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