Becker’s Behavioral Health

Every missed malnutrition diagnosis costs your hospital ~$10,000 in reimbursement — and puts patients at risk. Missing or under-documenting complex conditions like malnutrition, pressure injuries, acute kidney injury (AKI), delirium, etc. cause a system to treat a complex patient as “low-risk.”…

Hospitals spent $43 billion in 2025 chasing payments insurers already owed them. Payer tactics have grown more sophisticated, more automated and harder to detect — and many of the most financially damaging losses, including DRG downgrades, never trigger a formal…

Many hospitals still rely on generic clinical risk scores to flag high-risk patients. The challenge: those scores aren’t built to map to how CMS Star Ratings, HRRP, VBP and Leapfrog measure performance — which means quality improvement effort can be…

Imagine a supply chain function that decides in real time, not in retrospect — one connected to clinical workflows, utilization patterns and patient demographics, not just invoices and purchase orders. That shift is what separates a procurement-driven model from an…