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Navigating Medicare Advantage: Strategies for Hospitals to Tackle Growing Challenges

EvidenceCare

Written by Carol Howard, VP of Clinical Strategy As Medicare Advantage (MA) continues to grow, hospitals have faced growing challenges in navigating complex policies, payer friction, and financial pressures. These changes will impact how hospitals approach their contracts and denial strategies.

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Planned Home Birth - Marty Makary’s Blind Spot

Sensible Medicine

Randomized controlled trials could be done, but it would be difficult to find patients willing to be randomized to planned home vs. hospital delivery. Unplanned home births will obviously have worse outcomes than either hospital births or planned home births. Examining the Available Evidence Home birth is a complex topic to study.

Hospital 218
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Almost One-Third of Rural Hospitals Benefiting from Microsoft’s Cybersecurity for Rural Hospitals Program

The HIPAA Journal

If the nearest hospital experiences a ransomware attack that causes disruption to hospital operations, rural residents must travel a further 20 miles for common services and often a further 40 miles for specialized services. In 2022, 429 rural hospitals were at high financial risk.

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Siemens Healthineers And Medically Home Partner To Expand ‘Hospital Care At Home’

Forbes Healthcare

Siemens Healthineers and the fast-growing startup Medically Home are collaborating to expand more advanced medical care in patients homes.

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St. Paul Wipes Out $40 Million in Medical Debt for 32,000 Residents

Scrubs

Paul collaborates with organizations like RIP Medical Debt, a nonprofit specializing in medical debt relief. Medical debt is often seen as unavoidable or inescapable, with the costs of treatments, emergency care, and hospital stays piling up unexpectedly. In this groundbreaking model, St.

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New York Hospitals Will Now Assign Two Nurses to Every Critical Care Patient

Scrubs

A 2021 study found that NY hospitals average one nurse per six patients, which is higher than the recommended ratio of one nurse for every four patients. But the law doesn’t apply to all departments in the state’s 212 hospitals, only critical care and intensive care units, which was seen as a compromise.

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An Airline, A Hospital and A Disinfectant Brand Walk Into A(n Airport) Bar–the New Health/Care Collaboration in the Age of COVID

Health Populi

A new collaboration between United Airlines, Cleveland Clinic and Clorox reminded me of that scenario, and that in the age of the coronavirus pandemic, collaboration can bolster our health. You’ve heard the one about three characters walking into a bar. In the era of COVID-19, people — consumers.