Optum has designated 106 hospitals and health systems as Centers of Excellence for adult blood and marrow transplant, according to data from the payer’s website updated Aug. 19. Optum’s Centers of Excellence program has evaluated transplant providers since 1986, assessing…
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York, Pa.-based WellSpan Health has extended its cancer care collaboration with Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine. WellSpan and Johns Hopkins first established a clinical cancer care partnership in 2017, which expanded in 2021, according to an Aug. 20 news release from…
Cancer patients who live in counties with higher levels of medical debt were more likely to be diagnosed at a later stage and had worse survival outcomes, according to a study published Aug. 18 in the Journal of the National…
A fully staffed perioperative team is essential to safe, efficient surgical care — and rising procedural demand, clinician shortages and anesthesia constraints keep testing it. But workforce shortages are only half the problem. The other half is deployment: getting the…
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As colorectal cancer incidence grows among younger adults and patients have more screening options than ever before, insurance coverage may not be keeping up. Adults younger than 65 account for 45% of all newly diagnosed colorectal cancer cases in the…
New York City-based Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center reported operating income of $216.6 million (4.7% operating margin), up from an operating loss of $113.2 million (-2.7% margin) during the same period last year, according to its Aug. 14 financial report. …
Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine received approval from the Orland Park Village Board to build a $275 million cancer center, according to an Aug.18 report from the Chicago Tribune. The project will be partially funded through a $225 million donation from the…
by: LocumTenens.com Mergers, physician group exits and service line changes rarely arrive with a convenient pause. Schedules still need filling. Quality and safety metrics still need to hold. And whoever owns clinical staffing suddenly faces a problem that looks nothing…
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St. Louis-based WashU Medicine has named Andres Bur, MD, chief of the division of head and neck surgery in the department of otolaryngology. Dr. Bur was also appointed co-director of the Robert Ebert and Greg Stubblefield Head and Neck Tumor…
Most revenue cycle teams are not underperforming because people are not trying. They are underperforming because the work is scattered. Every added vendor creates another handoff. Every handoff creates a place where accountability goes soft and a claim can sit.…
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- Alicia Johnson, Associate VP of Revenue Cycle, Lake Regional Health System
- Nicole Rogas, President, RevSpring