Jeff Lagasse
New technologies bring the promise of earlier detection and automation, both with an eye on lowering costs.
The CBO's report follows similar projections that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services laid out earlier this year.
The transition is one careers will be built on, if health executives align their delivery systems properly, deploy analytics, and maintain a strategic focus.
Other healthcare executives such as CFOs also earned double-digit percentages of base salary, according to new research.
The shift from fee-for-service to value-based care means providers are facing new challenges. A rev cycle executive offers advice about tightening processes to overcome those.
AI technology is already in use in certain aspects of healthcare, such as diagnostic imaging, but it's being underutilized in several others.
Hospitalists pull shifts in which they're physically in the hospital the entire time, and don't have any competing activities.
Prior to the program's start, there was evidence that black patients had, on average, 20 percent higher readmission rates than white patients.
Lack of access to nutritious food is a social determinant of health linked to high healthcare costs; about 13 percent of U.S. households report food insecurity.
Paying hospitals a fixed global budget reduced their prices but individual physicians continued to be paid on a fee-for-service basis.