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The healthcare industry has been notoriously slow at adopting technologies, but if it gets on board with real-time claims processing, the money could flow in.
As risk-based managed care continues to grow in Medicaid, the model's financial sustainability is being tested across the country.
The adage of everything old becomes new again is proving true. Physician house calls are making a comeback and disrupting today's healthcare system.
It wasn't so long ago when it was common for a physician to visit patients in their homes. New technologies and a changing healthcare system placed physicians firmly in their offices, forcing patients to go to them. But the adage of everything old becomes new again is proving true. Physician house calls are making a comeback and disrupting today's healthcare system.
A new study published Monday in the Journal of Hospital Medicine found the Project BOOST (Better Outcomes by Optimizing Safe Transitions) Mentoring Program is effective in identifying patients at highest risk for readmissions, communicating discharge plans effectively and ensuring close follow-up through phone calls and timely doctors' appointments.
An analysis from HealthPocket has found that consumers who choose lower cost Bronze and Silver plans under the Affordable Care Act will likely pay more for prescription drugs than they do now.
CMS' Pioneer Accountable Care Organization Model requires a degree of patience that many of the participating organizations couldn't afford, as evidenced by the recent announcement that nine are leaving the program.
It's often said that our society is one steeped waist-deep in impatience. We want fast Internet, fast food, quick news, overnight deliveries. And this culture of immediate gratification pervades virtually every realm of society, even healthcare.
As a new generation ages into Medicare -- some with complex chronic conditions, others with a penchant for an active lifestyle and many expected to live into theirs 80s and 90s -- home healthcare models are changing.
President Barack Obama promoted the lower premiums consumers will gain from competition among health plans under the Affordable Care Act on Thursday at the White House.