Jeff Lagasse
Such physicians also can be used to fill in when healthcare facilities experience turnover on their medical staffs.
In total, 245 individual insurance carriers took part in federal and state exchanges during the 2019-2020 plan year, offering consumers more choice.
Care staff is often required to shift time and resources away from other patients to treat those with a life-threatening need for dialysis treatment.
The proposed rule promotes changes such as incorporating outpatient hip and knee replacements into the episode of care definition.
In the U.S., recruiting internationally educated nurses is addressing the ongoing nursing shortages.
Study shows MFA could realize $450 billion in savings and prevent 68,000 deaths per year, though implementation costs would be high.
More substantive improvements occurred in Canada as compared to the U.S., suggesting recommendations work best with policy change.
Understanding contract loopholes, and being self-advocates during negotiations, can help community hospitals increase their collections.
The COVID-19 virus may be at least as transmissible as SARS; WHO officials cautioned it's too early to tell if the spread will keep slowing.
Decreasing the percentage of primary care delivered out-of-network across all ACOs by 0.1% could save Medicare $45 million a year.