In a new rule this week, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services finalized an update to Medicare payment policies and rates under the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility (IRF) Prospective Payment System (PPS) and the IRF Quality Reporting Program (QRP) for fiscal year 2025, updating PPS payment rates by 3%.
Cody Coonradt, Billy’s CEO and founder, says patients are now able to negotiate prices for medical procedures and lower their bills by having location-based access to hospital pricing data.
Centene’s second-quarter earnings report brought good financial news for the insurer as it posted $1.1 billion in profit and $39.8 billion revenue, both improvements over the $1.05 billion in profit and $37.6 billion revenue it logged in Q2 2023.
Optum is laying off 524 employees in California jobs, according to a required filing in that state through the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act. Optum submitted the list of layoffs and permanent closures on July 18.
DuploCloud account executives Joshua Mattson and Aaron Blackmon said protecting sensitive data is key to ensuring customers are secure when they work on the cloud.
Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, D-WA, and Senator Edward J. Markey (D-MA) have introduced the Health Over Wealth Act, legislation that would require greater transparency for private equity firms and for-profit companies that own healthcare entities, including hospitals, nursing homes and mental or behavioral health facilities.
Sacramento, California-based UC Davis Medical Center held a groundbreaking ceremony recently to kick off a $3.74 billion expansion that includes the 14-story California Tower, as well as a new five-story pavilion. Hospital officials said the tower and pavilion will deliver better care and help the facility adapt to the evolving needs of the community. WHAT’S […]
Amos Adler, founder and president at Memotext, discusses how his app is geared toward more severe behavioral health issues like schizophrenia and psychosis, and attempts to curb rates of readmission and negative changes in health status.
Jerry Villacres, Manifold’s vice president of Sales, Cloud Solutions, uses his first visit to HIMSS’ Global Conference to see where his company may fit into the broader vendor landscape, and to learn more about AI in healthcare.
Almost half of respondents to a new survey have no objection to diagnoses powered by artificial intelligence, and many approve of it for administrative tasks.