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This document summarizes the proposed rule published by The Departments of Treasury, Labor, and Health and Human Services amending the definition of short term, limited duration (STLD) insurance for purposes of its exclusion from the definition of individual health insurance coverage.

Paul Bradley, chief data scientist for ZirMed, discusses how predictive analytics can be used to find lost revenue, improve the patient experience, and increase patient satisfaction.

An analysis of average length of stay looking at U.S. hospitals identified noteworthy variation among states within each of four regions.

HFMA President and CEO Joseph J. Fifer, FHFMA, CPA, talks about the importance of aligning organizational cultures when hospitals and health systems merge.

Approximately two-thirds of millennials are not comfortable with current security associated with online medical bill payments, with Generation X and Baby Boomers following at 58 percent.

A recent study found that attention to stakeholder goals and organizational culture and communication help newly merged or acquired hospitals meet their strategic aspirations.  

The true power of benchmarking entails studying how best practice organizations achieve their top performance levels and then takes those lessons learned and adapts them for use by other provider organizations.

By identifying key supply chain opportunities and process flow issues that needed correction, MaineHealth saved approximately $16 million in 2015, the first year of its overhaul; $27 million in 2016; and more than $34 million in 2017.

With a growing middle class and a desire for improved healthcare services, China is becoming a key investor in U.S. healthcare organizations, with the goal of bringing some of their practices and services back home.

This article highlights a white paper that analyzes the results of two recently fielded surveys about the current state of patient collections and emerging best practices to improve performance.