Business Intelligence

Providers utilize business intelligence to monitor referral patterns and collaborate with clinicians who order their services. Such analytics tools have also been deployed in the specialty to improve productivity, track patient satisfaction and bolster quality.

$49B in medical debt to be erased from credit reports
A new final rule from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau bans reporting agencies from including medical debts on credit reports or factoring them into credit scores.
$3.3B merger of UnitedHealth and Amedisys delayed by DOJ lawsuit
The new deadline for the deal to be finalized is Dec. 31, 2025. However, the ultimate fate of UnitedHealth's acquisition of Amedisys will be decided in a federal court.
FDA to hopeful marketers of AI-equipped medical devices: Think beyond your initial approval
Some FDA-approved medical devices age more safely than others. That’s no less true of AI-enabled technologies than of any others. The agency spells out the ramifications in draft guidance issued this week.
Mayo Clinic sues insurer over $740K in medical bills for patient
The nonprofit health system accused Sanford Health Plan of failing to pay for a patient’s 52 days of treatment, despite approval and authorization.
Industry Watcher’s Digest
Hospital boards of trustees should be grilling their CEOs about AI.

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Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

March 12, 2024

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When big returns on AI investment arrive in healthcare, providers will lag behind suppliers in marking the moment: Moody’s

Years will pass before the global economy’s healthcare sector sufficiently leverages AI to build major financial muscle off of it. And even then, industry players are likely to see gains well ahead of hospitals and health systems.

March 12, 2024

Mark Cuban to CEOs: ‘If you’re using a Big 3 pharmacy benefits manager, you are getting ripped off. Period. End of story.’

The White House held a roundtable discussion on lowering healthcare costs last week. Fortune magazine followed up with one of the panelists, business mogul and Cost Plus Drugs cofounder Mark Cuban.

March 11, 2024

Transparency report called ‘irresponsible,’ ‘reckless’

Have hospitals really taken a step backward along their march toward price transparency? Or is the watchdog outfit making the claim playing fast and loose with the facts?

March 11, 2024

Change Healthcare cyberattack: A recap and update in 10 quotes

“This is what happens when everything merges and you only have one option.”

March 8, 2024

Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

March 7, 2024

Generative AI: Who’s disrupting whom?

Given the speed at which generative AI has penetrated every major sector of human endeavor, no expert in any field should pretend to know how to cleanly separate the disruptors from the disrupted.

March 7, 2024

Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

March 5, 2024

Business Intelligence

$49B in medical debt to be erased from credit reports

$3.3B merger of UnitedHealth and Amedisys delayed by DOJ lawsuit

FDA to hopeful marketers of AI-equipped medical devices: Think beyond your initial approval

Mayo Clinic sues insurer over $740K in medical bills for patient

Industry Watcher’s Digest