Economics

This channel highlights factors that impact hospital and healthcare economics and revenue. This includes news on healthcare policies, reimbursement, marketing, business plans, mergers and acquisitions, supply chain, salaries, staffing, and the implementation of a cost-effective environment for patients and providers.

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Providers still making more despite flat productivity

Judging by work RVUs, U.S. physicians and other clinicians are getting decent raises every year without lifting their billable productivity enough to pay for it, AMGA’s latest survey suggests.

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Google Cloud inks deal to help U.S. military improve cancer care with AI, augmented reality solutions

The new project includes, among other things, key detection models and augmented reality microscopes. 

TeraRecon Launches Intuition Subscription with Included Eureka AI Platform

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TeraRecon launches new Intuition Titanium suite, a new inclusive subscription offering that includes a robust set of enterprise AI capabilities.

Getting acquired by private equity bolsters hospitals’ bottom line, quality status

Comparing the financials of more than 200 private equity-acquired hospitals with those of more than 500 matched controls, Harvard researchers have found Big Money’s backing translates into bigger income.

Google takes $100M plunge into telehealth

Google Cloud is injecting $100 million into a supplier of telehealth platforms, partly to build out AI systems for helping hospitals remotely handle patient inquiries, intake and triage.

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Analysis: $1.4B could have gone to better uses than discarded Medicare drugs

The authors suggest requiring drugmakers, hospitals and doctors to refund CMS and/or making pharma companies right-size drug containers.

Pandemic perspectives: 3 affected generations, 1 stark conclusion

Millennials, Gen Xers and Baby Boomers fall fairly close to one another in how they view several aspects of life with COVID. One in which the divide is wide: the desire for a “digital detox.”

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AHA condemns Trump administration’s latest attack on ACA

The American Heart Association noted that the Affordable Care Act has provided “invaluable patient protections for millions of Americans with pre-existing conditions.”

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Updated compensation data includes good news for multiple subspecialties. The new report also examines private equity's impact on employment models and how much male cardiologists earn compared to females.

When drugs are on the FDA’s shortage list, outsourcing facilities can produce their own compounded versions. When the FDA removed tirzepatide from that list with no warning, it created a considerable amount of chaos both behind the scenes and in pharmacies all over the country. 

If passed, this bill would help clinician-led clinical registries explore Medicare data for research purposes. The Society of Thoracic Surgeons and American College of Cardiology both shared public support for the bipartisan legislation. 

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