What’s driving healthcare prices higher? It’s not a greedy cabal of hospital execs. The industry has multiple cartels that are supposed to keep each other in check, but in fact engage in pseudo-negotiations that lead to higher prices on everything.
Dialysis centers and patient advocacy groups urged the CMS to reconsider several key areas of its end-stage renal disease pay model, claiming it limits patient choice and discourages care.
Ballad Health sued 5,700 patients in its first full year of operation, according to the system. Executives said they win 99% of cases, but a circuit court clerk said that may be because many patients can't afford attorneys.
Medicare Advantage health plans are wary of investing heavily into addressing social health determinants, even though the federal government has given them the flexibility to offer related benefits, new research found.
All people need to feel safe, valued and able to freely express concerns without stigma or shame. Yet, time and time again, we see that some of our neighbors do not seek care because they feel they will be judged and that their needs will not be understood.
Swedish Medical Group is piloting a virtual assistant that listens in to patient visits and automatically inputs notes in the EHR—cutting down on documentation time and opening up possibilities for increased patient volume.
To hear some community members tell it, Ballad Health's local healthcare monopoly is in a near-catastrophic state of dysfunction, claims that Ballad officials fervently deny.
Revenue-cycle management firms are increasingly seeing providers choose to fully outsource revenue-cycle services to specialists rather than handle in-house.
Catholic hospitals have faced lawsuits and controversy over application of their Ethical and Religious Directives that prohibit services such as gender transition surgery.
Today we are dealing with opioids; tomorrow, if we don’t take a strategic approach, we will be dealing with something else. To recover from this crisis and prevent the next one, we must invest in creating resilient communities.
A burgeoning market of operators offering population health management solutions is viewed by some as essential to help the healthcare industry move toward bigger investments in addressing social needs.
A growing focus on patient-centered care—sometimes being called person-centered care—at health systems is putting a spotlight on access, experience and the possibility of “hospital at home.”
Changes coming to the way skilled-nursing homes are paid will pinch SNFs that have boosted investment in therapy as well as those treating a smaller share of medically complex patients.
Jonathan Bush has joined Firefly Health as executive chairman. He left Athenahealth last year in the wake of several allegations, including court documents that detailed "numerous physical altercations" with his now ex-wife.
