Healthcare Finance Staff
About 20 medical episodes account for about 40 percent of the past half-decade's growth in employer healthcare spending, according to a new study.
A family dentist in deep southern Texas is suing to pare back the state Health and Human Services Commission's power to withhold and freeze Medicaid payments for program violations.
A permanent solution to Medicare's troublesome physician payment formula advanced yesterday when a House subcommittee approved a bipartisan proposal to repeal and replace it.
If the states not expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) stay with their decision, those state governments will collectively spend $1 billion more on uncompensated care in 2016 than they would have had they expanded Medicaid, says a recent RAND Corporation study.
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.
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.
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.