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Vital Directions report offers broad template for change for industry redesign, expert says.
Topping the list of ACA provisions likely to survive under Trump is the requirement that employers cover workers' children up to the age of 26.
Tens of thousands of American lives could be saved each year with a concerted national effort to emulate what top military and civilian trauma centers are doing, a prestigious panel of top medical experts reported Friday.
Marilyn Tavenner, the former nurse, hospital executive and Medicare administrator, will succeed Karen Ignagni as the head of America's Health Insurance Plans, effective Aug. 24, the organization announced Wednesday.
Instead of retiring, Marilyn Tavenner, the former nurse, hospital executive and Medicare administrator, is going to represent the economic and political interests of American health insurers.
Clearly healthcare is the most interesting and dynamic sector in the U.S. today. We are witness to an unprecedented transformation as healthcare stakeholders embrace new delivery entities and new reimbursement models, shift attention to building relationships with members and explore new markets. There will be winners and losers in this game, and everyone is placing their bets.
The nurse turned hospital executive turned chief federal healthcare regulator is leaving the government. Now the industry is left wondering: Who will take the reigns in the Obama Administration's pivotal fourth quarter?
Powerful social forces will drive the healthcare industry to innovate, overcoming institutional and political inertia, says healthcare consultant and futurist Ian Morrison. But things may not get 'serious' until 2018.
Healthcare Finance News talked to Donald Berwick, MD, about the importance of shifting mindsets and business models to embrace the morality of caring for patients and society.
Is it realistic to expect Accountable Care Organizations to achieve their cost-reduction targets in the first year of their programs? The experience of the original 32 Pioneer ACOs is suggestive.