Beth Jones Sanborn
Inpatient hospitals will see increase of $800 million over the previous year, but long-term care facilities face $110 million cut in payments.
System is already knee deep in the planned divestitures of 30 hospitals; additional sales are part of shift to "smaller stronger" portfolio.
Areas with more primary care physicians have lower spending per beneficiary, better care, patient satisfaction and lower death rates, authors say.
App will boost compliance by cutting down on time needed for credentialing process, increases access to info, GHX says.
Treatment of low back pain a major area of overuse, overspending; outcomes are sorely in need of improvement, Health Affairs says.
New charity organization will offer no- and low-cost consulting services to troubled community hospitals.
Cutting down on negative physician bias towards obesity could yield better treatment, patient outcomes.
Division manages 15 community hospitals across the area, operates ten freestanding emergency centers.
Company said they feared consumer backlash, further financial harm if refunds were not allowed, Dallas News said.
Only about 20 percent of health outcomes are determined by clinical care, yet it accounts for the majority of healthcare investments, report says.