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Reimagining Care for Medically Complex Children

3 days ago | healthleadersmedia.com | Eric Wicklund

PPEC programs like Spark Pediatrics give healthcare providers a resource to manage and coordinate care for children with complex care needs. They also give parents a chance to relax a bit, and enable these children to be kids. Prescribed Pediatric Extended Care (PPEC) programs coordinate care for medically complex children through centers, similar to day cares. 15 states permit PPECs through their Medicaid programs, and other states are looking at legislating the program.
Will Post-Brian Thompson Reforms Go the Way of DEI?

6 days ago | healthleadersmedia.com | Laura Beerman

What happens when violent events amplify calls for reform? What do healthcare and DEI reforms have in common? Why does it take a crisis — even violence — to activate change that persists, versus fading away? This HealthLeaders analysis series explores these questions and more, including how stakeholders can stay committed to creating an equitable healthcare system in the face of mounting pressure. Let’s take a trip back in time. It’s the pandemic, May 25, 2020.
Why One New Hospital CEO is Prioritizing Physician Succession Planning

6 days ago | healthleadersmedia.com | Jay Asser

Rural providers especially need to be proactive in addressing physician turnover, says this incoming hospital leader. Physician succession planning is crucial for rural hospitals to maintain care continuity and avoid service loss, according to Cole Stockton, CEO of Highpoint Health – Riverview and Highpoint Health – Trousdale. Multifaceted rural physicians are hard to replace, making early recruitment and creative staffing models like telemedicine vital.
MUSC Builds on Success to Expand Virtual Nursing Across the Hospital

1 week ago | healthleadersmedia.com | Eric Wicklund

The Charleston-based health center, participating in HealthLeaders’ Virtual Nursing Mastermind program, is ready to move beyond med/surg units and put virtual nurses in the ED, ICU and specialty care programs. Virtual nursing programs across the country are slowly moving from initial pilots and early implementations to new areas of the hospital, like the ED and ICU.
Market Volatility Cools Hospital M&A Momentum in Q1

1 week ago | healthleadersmedia.com | Jay Asser

New analysis reveals that organizations are holding off on dealmaking amid an uncertain economic environment. Hospital M&A activity hit a historic low in the first quarter of 2025 with just five deals announced, down from 20 over the same period in 2024. Economic and policy uncertainty is hampering dealmaking, while the transactions that are springing up consist more of smaller deals, divestitures, and innovative partnerships rather than mega-mergers.
New Study: RPM Reimbursement Needs a Reset

1 week ago | healthleadersmedia.com | Eric Wicklund

CMS spent almost $200 million on remote patient monitoring in 2023, and more providers are embracing the technology to track patient biometrics. That’s why the time is right to align payer policies and reimbursement on high-performing programs. CMS reimburses remote patient monitoring through a series of CPT codes tied to remote physiological monitoring and remote therapeutic monitoring.
Infographic: Zooming In On Layoffs & Lowering Labor Costs

1 week ago | healthleadersmedia.com | Marie Defreitas

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In Rural Massachusetts, Patients and Physicians Weigh Trade-Offs of Concierge Medicine

1 week ago | healthleadersmedia.com | Karen Brown

Many physicians who've made the change say it resolved some of the pressures they faced in primary care. The trade magazine Concierge Medicine Today estimates there are 7,000 to 22,000 concierge physicians in the U.S. Membership fees range from $1,000 to as high as $50,000 a year. Critics say concierge medicine helps only patients who have extra money to spend on healthcare, while shrinking the supply of more traditional primary care practices in a community.
An Indian Drugmaker, Investigated by ProPublica Last Year, Has Recalled Two Dozen Medications Sold to U.S. Patients

1 week ago | healthleadersmedia.com | Patricia Callahan

By Patricia Callahan Glenmark Pharmaceuticals has recalled two dozen generic medicines sold to American patients because the Indian factory that made them failed to comply with U.S. manufacturing standards and the Food and Drug Administration determined that the faulty drugs could harm people, federal records show. In February, the FDA found problems with cleaning and testing at the plant in Madhya Pradesh, India, which was the subject of a ProPublica investigation last year.
HL Shorts: How Virtua Medical Groups Limits Physician Time in EHR

1 week ago | healthleadersmedia.com | Christopher Cheney

Recent research found that a significant percentage of primary care physicians work in the electronic health record during vacations. To alleviate worry about patient care during vacations, primary care practices at Virtua Medical Group have a coverage system in place for absent physicians. Virtua Medical Group has adopted "in-basketologists," nurse practitioners who mine electronic in-baskets for messages that do not need a doctor's attention.