Jeff Lagasse
Cuts could destabilize current specialty care referral networks serving children in need of specialized care.
The new version of the program focuses on a number of key areas important to pediatric populations, such as surgical site infection outcomes for specific procedures.
Reductions in uninsured rates ranged from -14.3 percent in the Guamanian or Chamorro subgroup to -4.1 percent in the Japanese subgroup.
These jobs will be the hardest to fill for the next several years, according to new data from Mercer.
Integrating flexible payment options into a revenue cycle requires needed change for a provider's bottom line.
U.S. investments in global health research and development from 2007 to 2015 not only created jobs but injected millions into local economies.
Former HHS Secretary Tom Price's statements and new research from the Commonwealth Fund suggest that the ACA provision brought more young people into the insurance pool and repealing it will trigger price increases.
The practice of palliative care is known to make patients more comfortable and now is proven to shorten hospital stays and lower costs.
A quick breakdown of the different approaches hospitals are taking to compensate physicians amid the massive shift from volume to value.
In order to change the way care is delivered, an individual outfit needs to have a sufficient percentage of its practice in a value-based world. That balance can be tricky but hospitals won't succeed without it.