A study published in Health Affairs found that one symptomatic case of COVID-19 costs a median of $3,045 in direct medical costs incurred only during the course of the infection. If that case results in a...Read More »
Estimates from the Kaiser Family Foundation found that hospital reimbursement for treatment of uninsured COVID-19 patients may account for more than $40 billion of the $100 billion designated for hospitals in the latest coronavirus stimulus package.
The brief estimated that total hospital...Read More »
A Guidehouse analysis found that one quarter of rural hospitals are at high risk of closing due to financial challenges, reported HealthLeaders Media.
That means, more than 350 rural hospitals, accounting for $8.3 billion in total patient revenue, are at risk. The five...Read More »
According to an audit from the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG), a 253-bed hospital in Topeka, Kansas, received millions in overpayments because of incorrectly billing Medicare.
The OIG audit report states that Saint Francis Health Center...Read More »
2020 is one of those oddities that occurs (almost) every four years: a leap year. Leap years were first created to account for the mismatch of timing between the Earth making one revolution on is own, or a day, and how long it takes to travel around the sun, which...Read More »
The largest sepsis study ever conducted with Medicare data found a 40% increase in the rate of Medicare beneficiaries hospitalized with the infection between 2012 and 2018, reported HealthLeaders Media.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 270,000...Read More »
New survey results from the American Medical Association (AMA) found that the number of physicians who use telehealth for visiting with patients has doubled between 2016 and 2019. However, the overall number of physicians using this technology remains low, with only 28% of the 1,300 surveyed...Read More »
Most of you have received the ACDIS 2020 conference brochure in your mailbox over the past week or so. We hope that its arrival caused as much excitement for you as it did for us. (Yes, we seriously were clapping and cheering in the office when it arrived. We’...Read More »
