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Financial incentives may not be enough to get employees to adopt healthy behaviors and stick with them long enough to prevent costly, common diseases that contribute heavily to health spending, according to a trio of researchers in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Hospitals that perform best on mortality measures for heart attack, pneumonia and congestive heart patients also have lower mortality rates for other types of medical and surgical patients, an analysis of performance across more than 2,300 hospitals shows.
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The U.S. will have to do more to prevent chronic illness than simply managing it better in order to save significantly on costs for Medicare's most expensive patients, a new study suggests.
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One of the most frequently trumpeted “truths” in healthcare policy research is that the system is larded with waste, perhaps as much as 30% of all spending.
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The nominees for Modern Healthcare's 12th annual 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare competition.
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As Oregon's governor, Dr. John Kitzhaber brought Democrats and Republicans together to reform his state's Medicaid program, and he brought doctors and lawyers together to advance tort reform.
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Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber topped this year's list of the 50 Most Influential Physician Executives in Healthcare.
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Hospitals earn higher profit margins when patients, particularly those with private insurance, experience surgical complications, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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“A baseball bat doesn't exist until it's isolated from a tree. But that's still the product of human invention to decide where to begin the bat and where to end the bat.”
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Hospitals earn higher profit margins when their patients experience surgical complications, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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