By Anurag Mehta, CEO and Co-Founder of Omega Healthcare. Healthcare is being reshaped by persistent financial pressures, regulatory changes, and the rapid proliferation of AI. Revenue systems built for a slower, more predictable environment can no longer keep up. As the payer/provider dynamic becomes more complex, denials rise, and administrative burden grows. Therefore, static or […]

By Heather Grey, SVP & GM, Camille McWhirter, VP of Sales and Taylor Elkow, Associate Director of Sales at Omega Healthcare. Most patients receive care in community health centers, yet the vast majority of clinical trials still take place in large academic medical centers, creating major gaps in access, equity, and scientific validity. Expanding trials […]

Optimizing the efficacy of clinical trials via proficient management of real-world data, ensuring optimal insights for informed decision-making and successful outcomes. In his Q&A session on de-risking clinical trials with real-world data, Iker Huerga, SVP of Life Sciences Strategy and Real-World Data at Tempus, noted that “[d]espite extensive planning, resource investment, and R&D innovation, about […]

Author: Heather Grey, SVP/GM of RWD and Clinical Trials, Omega Healthcare At two poster sessions co-presented with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) at the AACR Annual Meeting and the Cancer Center Informatics Society Summit, Omega Healthcare shared details of a unique and aggressive project to deliver high-quality real-world data […]

Sustainable and scalable data management services with skilled resources are paramount to meet your clinical trial and research goals. Health systems, oncology centers, academic researchers, and others must curate and standardize clinical trial data to conduct meaningful analysis. This labor-intensive process is mission critical to accelerate research and improve diagnosis and treatment. Yet the increasing […]

By Chris Rigsby, SVP Payer Solutions   For payers, 2024 was a challenging year. Sweeping policy changes squeezed reimbursement, and rising medical utilization sent costs soaring. Managed care stocks underperformed significantly, plummeting 13 percent and lagging far behind the S&P 500’s 23 percent growth, as investors reacted to worsening margin pressures and growing regulatory scrutiny. […]

By Anurag Mehta, CEO & Co-Founder The financial landscape for healthcare providers continues to evolve — and not necessarily in their favor.  Kaufmann Hall’s November 2024 Flash Report provides an at-glance positive outlook: Financial performance across 1,300 hospitals and health systems remained relatively consistent throughout the year. The data suggests that, following the historic lows […]

By Julius Raj Stephen, SVP Operations Proactive approaches can help address the source of nearly 50 percent of denials: front-end revenue cycle issues. Staff shortages, gaps in training, and technology non-adoption all contribute to the front-end errors and inefficiencies that lead to denials. In Part 1 of this series, we explored those challenges — and […]

By Julius Raj Stephen, SVP Operations   What You’ll Learn The root causes behind preventable denials — and why front-end breakdowns are doing the most damage 4 high-impact strategies to fix the front end — including practical, people-first solutions and the tech tools that make them work How proactive denial prevention improves more than revenue […]

By Jeff Studenka, SVP of Marketing & Mark Glickman, SVP, Growth & Strategy Over the past year, progress has been made on the road to post-pandemic financial recovery. According to a recent report from Kaufman Hall, key indicators — including improved outpatient revenue and shorter average length of stay — reveal that hospital finances overall […]

By Heather Grey, SVP/GM of RWD and Clinical Trials The need for diversity in clinical trials is well understood; it’s fundamental to supporting health equity and innovation across the healthcare continuum. But, improving clinical trial diversity in a sustainable, scalable way continues to be a challenge for drug developers, academic institutions, and clinical research overall.  […]

By Vijayashree Natarajan, SVP, Head of Technology The HLTH 2024 conference in Las Vegas (October 20-23) brought together healthcare leaders to explore a critical question: How can we give people more healthy years to spend doing what they love with the people they love? This overarching theme of ‘Increasing our Healthspan,’ coupled with a call […]