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Margin Misconceptions: What do Break-even Hospital Margins Mean for Patient Care?
Given the historic financial pressures borne by hospitals and health systems over the last eighteen months, there is tremendous focus on organizations’ margins. Simply put, this metric tells us how an organization’s costs compare to their revenues and is one, but not the only, indicator of a hospital or health system’s financial health.
CMS to begin enforcing ‘exact match’ service location policy for off-campus outpatient claims Aug. 1
Effective Aug. 1, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has instructed Medicare Administrative Contractors to begin checking hospital and health system claims for outpatient services provided in off-campus provider-based departments to ensure that the address where the services were provided exactly matches the provider location information in the Medicare Provider Enrollment, Chain, and Ownership System, the agency announced.
Agencies warn hospitals, others about tracking technology compliance risks
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights and Federal Trade Commission yesterday sent a letter to about 130 hospital systems and telehealth providers reminding them to comply with HIPAA Privacy, Security and Breach Notification Rules, the FTC Act and FTC Health Breach Notification Rule when using technologies that can track a user’s online activities, such as Meta/Facebook Pixel and Google Analytics.
CMS adjusts CAH 96-hour calculation for COVID-19 PHE waiver period
As urged by the AHA, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will make a one-time adjustment to the 96-hour average annual patient length-of-stay requirement for critical access hospitals in the Medicare program to account for its blanket waiver of the requirement during the COVID-19 public health emergency, the agency announced today.
#HAVhope: Hospitals Lead Efforts during National Day of Awareness to End Violence
Hospitals and health systems are beacons of healing, comfort, care and hope.
AHA case study: Innovative strategies to reduce workplace violence
A new AHA case study highlights innovative strategies from New York-Presbyterian to reduce workplace violence risk.
AHA National Hospital Week video highlights vital role of hospital workers
The AHA has released a “We Are Hospitals” video that tells the story of the hospital and health care workers who care for their communities and keep them healthy, through the lens of employees at Meritus Health in Hagerstown, Md, Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, and UnityPoint Health—Grinnell (Iowa) Regional Medical Center.
AHA co-hosts regional meeting for hospital leaders on human trafficking
AHA’s Hospitals Against Violence initiative, Jones Day and HEAL Trafficking (Health, Education, Advocacy, Linkage) hosted Forced Labor in Health Care Supply Chains: What Hospital Leaders Need to Know, an event in New York where speakers from Northwell Health shared practical information and resources to help health care providers prevent human trafficking, with a focus on health care supply chain issues.
AHA, AONL: Thank you to all who work in America’s hospitals, health systems
America’s hospitals and health systems each year deliver 3.5 million babies, care for 32 million people admitted to hospitals, employ 6.3 million people, and provide emergency care to 123 million people, notes an AHA and American Organization for Nursing Leadership ad published May 8.
Chair File: Highlighting the Extraordinary Work of Hospitals and Health Systems
This week as we celebrate National Hospital Week (https://www.aha.org/ahia/get-involved/national-hospital-week) and National Nurses Week (https://www.aonl.org/about/nurses-week), it’s a perfect time for telling the hospital story.