Editor’s Picks

8 Things Providers Don’t Know About Debt Collection and Cell Phones

Now that the FCC has clarified rules for contacting patients about payments, hospitals and health systems are risking multi-million dollar settlements by failing to take the law seriously. >>>

Two-Midnight Rule War’s Payment Cut Battle May be its Last

CMS says a 0.2% Medicare payment cut for hospitals is needed to offset the estimated costs of implementing the two-midnight rule. Hospitals contend it is "an arbitrary standard." But an analysis of the financial impact of the rule will likely take years and another round in federal court. >>>

Medicare Sparks Site-Neutral Payment Showdown

There is likely no clear winner in the fight between hospital and physician groups who are weighing in on Medicare’s new site-neutral payment policy that goes into effect next year. >>>

The Side Effects of a Better-Informed Patient

While shared decision-making for elective procedures could negatively affect volumes, leaders need to consider that, like value-based reimbursement, it’s coming. So is it better to get ahead? >>>

Changing Patient Behavior Through Technology

Software and hardware developments are opening new ways to get patients more involved in their own care. >>>

Addressing People, Practice, and Profession

At the first HealthLeaders Media CNO Exchange, healthcare executives focused on solutions and innovations to address changes in the industry and the nursing profession. >>>

Sepsis, Septic Shock Redefined in Consensus Statement

Several studies have made it clear that requiring two or more systemic inflammatory response syndrome criteria to define sepsis does not identify the sickest patients with a greater risk for death, one researcher noted. From Medpage Today. >>>

News Headlines

Humana stock rises on proposed hikes in Medicare reimbursements

Louisville Business First, February 24, 2016

HHS failed to heed many warnings that Healthcare.gov was in trouble

The Washington Post, February 24, 2016

Christians find their own way to replace Obamacare

U.S. News & World Report, February 24, 2016

FDA reform, privacy law standards needed in next healthcare overhaul, group says

Healthcare IT News, February 23, 2016

UPMC says insurer should cover its tentative $12.5M settlement in antitrust case

Pittsburgh Business Times, February 23, 2016

CA Legislature to advance health-plan tax

The News & Observer / Associated Press, February 23, 2016

Health startup Oscar shifts course in million-customer plan

Bloomberg, February 22, 2016

Blue Cross complaints top 1,400 as software problems continue

News & Observer, February 22, 2016

Why a CA hospital paid a $17,000 ransom in bitcoin

The Christian Science Monitor, February 19, 2016

IBM buys Truven, adding to growing trove of patient data at Watson Health

The New York Times, February 19, 2016

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