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By Georgina Gonzalez for Becker’s Hospital Review The following executive moves made by women have been reported by or shared with Becker’s since April 29. Maureen Schneider, PhD, RN, has been named president of Pompton Plains, N.J.-based Chilton Medical Center, which is owned by Atlantic Health System. Robyn Strosaker, MD, has been appointed president and COO of…
By Naomi Diaz for Becker’s Hospital Review Hospitals are using artificial intelligence to improve health outcomes, conduct research and improve patient care. Here are four artificial intelligence projects health systems’ have recently created and deployed as reported by Becker’s Hospital Review: Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai’s AI division, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, is working to fill in the gaps in…
By Hannah Norman, Kaiser Health News for NBC News Tiffanie Jones was a few tanks of gas into her drive from Tampa, Florida, to Cheyenne, Wyoming, when she found out her travel nurse contract had been canceled. Jones, who has been a nurse for 17 years, caught up with a Facebook group for travel nurses and…
By Susan Morse for Healthcare Finance General acute care hospitals are projected to get a 3.2% increase in operating payment rates under the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System and Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System proposed rule released Monday by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. CMS estimates that payments to hospitals will increase in 2023 by $1.6 billion. The…
By Susan Kelly for Healthcare Dive Dive Brief: Doctors’ incomes are on the rise again, after stagnating and in many cases declining when practices closed and patients stayed home at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new physician compensation report from Medscape. Pay increases by specialty ranged from 13% for otolaryngology to 1% for…
By Katie Adams for Becker’s Hospital Review Burnout and EHR dissatisfaction are key factors associated with clinicians’ likelihood to leave their organization, according to KLAS research released April 12. KLAS surveyed 59,000 clinicians about how likely they are to leave their organizations in the next two years. The survey found that clinicians who are very dissatisfied with…
By Kelly Gooch for Becker’s Hospital Review Thirty-six hospitals and health systems are among the nation’s best employers for diversity, according to Forbes. Forbes partnered with market research firm Statista for the rankings, which are based on a survey Statista conducted among 60,000 Americans working for businesses with at least 1,000 employees. The survey, conducted from September-October…
By Alia Paavlov for Becker’s Hospital Review CMS proposed 1,495 changes to the ICD-10-CM diagnostic code set in its proposed Inpatient Prospective Payment System rule released April 18. A large slew of the proposed changes focus on brain illness and injuries — mostly dementia-related diagnoses — and endometriosis. Specifically, CMS proposed a set of codes that focus…
By Laura Dydra for Becker’s Hospital Review Nine U.S. physicians appeared on Forbes‘ 36th annual list of the world’s richest people. The list featured 33 U.S.-based billionaire entrepreneurs, heirs, inventors and leaders in healthcare, and 2,668 billionaires all together. Below is the list of U.S. physician billionaires and their 2022 net worth. Thomas Frist Jr., MD. Co-founder of HCA Healthcare…
By Hailey Mensik for Healthcare Dive Dive Brief: Turnover rates for healthcare workers are returning to pre-pandemic levels after massive disruptions during initial coronavirus waves, though rates among physicians and those working in long-term care have worsened, according to research published Friday in Health Affairs. Out of all healthcare occupations, health aides and assistants had…