Since last summer, health insurers have been telling investors that hospitals' use of artificial intelligence tools for medical coding and billing is driving up the cost of healthcare. Insurers claim ...

Significant attention has been paid to the potential high-level impact of recent legislative and regulatory updates, but HFMA's Kathy Stull recently highlighted some of the underreported issues that ...

The benefits of the health system's model include improving management of chronic conditions, addressing acute needs in a low-cost setting, and providing hospital transition of care services.

As patient balances become a top priority, revenue cycle leaders are recognizing that legacy payment plans fall short, prompting a shift toward empathetic, pre-service financial engagement.

New CEO Timothy Reed brings a finance-primed strategy to Prosser Memorial Health as the rural system balances rapid expansion ...

The next phase of RCM won’t be won through incremental fixes. It requires a different operating model that can keep up with faster technology cycles, payer complexity and differ ...

The medical center's approach to boosting mental health services includes technology adoption, expansion of the hospital's ...

CFOs are shifting labor strategy from cost containment to long-term operational resilience — with retention, flexibility, and AI now central to financial performance.

According to the 2026 NCSBN Environmental Scan, approximately 5,000 qualified students were turned away from nursing programs ...

An unforgiving financial climate is forcing many community hospitals to choose between preserving independence and pursuing consolidation. But the path forward doesn’t have to be strictly binary.

The goal behind the simulation lab is standardization and application, says this nurse leader. Nurses must be able to enter the industry with the confidence and clinical readiness that they need to ...

Earning high patient safety grades from The Leapfrog Group are an indication of clinical excellence, the chief medical and quality officer of RWJBarnabas Health says.