Strategic Planning
Running its own health plan has allowed this Wisconsin system to design a homemade value-based reimbursement model.
The average global cost of data breach per every lost or stolen record is $158. Healthcare organizations, however, had an average cost of $355 per record, according to the new survey conducted by Ponemon.
Two-thirds of businesses, including organizations in the healthcare industry, wait until a cybersecurity attack before they engage a security vendor or a managed security services provider, according to a recent Ponemon study commissioned by government contractor Raytheon Foreground Security.
To cure the country's opioid addiction crisis, collaboration on aligned incentives is needed between insurers, providers and the pharmaceutical industry, Cigna CEO and President David Cordani said during the America's Health Insurance Plans conference in Las Vegas last week.
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.
LAS VEGAS--Partnering with providers, using telehealth, and having more appropriate end-of-life care, are among the challenges that need to be addressed to lower the cost of healthcare, according to health insurance leaders who opened America's Health Insurance Plans' Annual Institute and Expo Wednesday in Las Vegas.
At its annual meeting this week, the American Medical Association adopted new policies encourage physicians to co-prescribe naloxone to patients at risk of an overdose; promote timely and appropriate access to non-opioid and non-pharmacologic treatments for pain; and support efforts to delink payments to healthcare facilities with patient satisfaction scores relating to the evaluation and management of pain.
Physicians gathered at the Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association have voted for David Barbe, M.D., M.H.A., a family physician from Mountain Grove, Missouri, to be the group's next president-elect, according to the physician organization.
Support for women's health care, along with family planning resources, has been dramatically scaled back, in part because of funding restrictions placed on women's clinics that, in addition to other services, provide abortions. Also, both states declined to expand Medicaid. Those decisions, many advocates say, are putting a squeeze on the health care system's ability to educate women about Zika's risks and minimize its impact.
Starting salaries for both primary care physicians and specialists have shot up in the last 12 months, according to a 2016 report by Merritt Hawkins, a physician search firm and subsidiary of AMN Healthcare. The spike represents a rising demand for physicians and amid the growing doctor shortage, Merritt Hawkins said.