Last year over 60 major health insurers pledged to streamline prior authorization processes — but few physicians think these pledges have made a difference in PA burden, according to the American Medical Association’s “2025 AMA Prior Authorization Physician Survey” released…
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EMS reimbursement pressures are rising as audits, denials and documentation scrutiny intensify across the industry. As payer analytics become more sophisticated, EMS organizations are facing growing pressure to justify every transport, document every modifier accurately and prevent revenue leakage before…
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For small and rural hospitals, today’s interoperability requirements are reshaping where revenue cycle pressure lands first: at the front end. Real-time eligibility verification, advance explanations of benefits and faster prior authorization aren’t just technology updates, they are operational shifts that…
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Anesthesia has become one of the fastest-growing financial liabilities for ASCs amid what leaders call a structural mismatch between how ASCs operate and how anesthesia gets paid. The costliest anesthesia issue is “misalignment between operational efficiency and the anesthesia delivery…
Matthews, a commercial real estate investment services and technology firm, facilitated the sale-leaseback of a nine-property medical office portfolio across Atlanta and northern Georgia. Moreover, the firm said the deal marked the highest sale price for a privately owned medical…
Cardiovascular risk assessment is evolving, with the 2026 ACC/AHA Dyslipidemia Guideline now recommending that every adult have lipoprotein(a) — Lp(a), an inherited cardiovascular risk factor — measured at least once in a lifetime. The 2026 American College of Cardiology/American Heart…
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- Donald M. Lloyd-Jones, MD, ScM, FAHA, FACC
- Frank Qian, MD, MPH
Charlottesville, Va.-based UVA Health researchers helped identify new ways to predict sudden cardiac death and heart failure risk in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a genetic heart disease that affects as many as 1 in 200 people. The international study followed…
Sunrise, Fla.-based North American Partners in Anesthesia entered into a new partnership with Olean (N.Y.) General Hospital. The organization will begin providing anesthesia services to the acute care facility starting in September, according to a May 13 news release from…
Picture a healthcare environment where enterprise applications don’t just track tasks — they act on them. Where compliance steps move forward without manual prompting, exceptions surface before they become problems, and clinical and operational teams spend less time on process…
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- Elina Petrillo
- John Harvey
- Frances Chao
Irving, Texas-based NorthStar Anesthesia has announced three new ASC partnerships in Virginia, according to a May 12 news release. The new partnerships include Careplex Orthopaedic ASC in Hampton Roads, MedRVA Healthcare Stony Point and West Creek Surgery Centers in Richmond…
