Jeff Lagasse
The share of mental health treatment expenditures financed by private insurance, Medicare and Medicaid increased from 44 percent in 1986 to 68 percent in 2014, a study released Monday by Health Affairs showed.
58 practices in 39 states and the District of Columbia have joined CancerLinQ, the American Society of Clinical Oncology's big data initiative, which seeks to improve the quality of care for people with cancer.
MedAssets-Precyse has acquired clinical healthcare analytics and consulting firm Equation, and their new brand will be unveiled at the upcoming Healthcare Financial Management Association conference in Las Vegas later this month.
John Clark, population health program manager at UNC Health Care, said direct employer contracts that eliminate intermediaries and can really help a health system contain costs. But the approach comes with some risks.
As value-based reimbursement leads healthcare providers to dig deep for new technologies and create team structures to handle the switch, smaller providers are struggling to cover the costs.
TeamHealth Holdings, a physician services organization, has acquired the operations of Tri-City Emergency Medical Group based in Oceanside, California.
A national project called the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program, funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, has significantly helped to reduce catheter-associated urinary tract infections in hospitals, according to a study published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Kindred Healthcare has completed the sale of two of its transitional care hospitals, licensed as long-term acute care hospitals, to Select Medical Holdings Corp., while also selling fours hospital to Select, the companies announced on Wednesday.
WellCare Health Plans has completed its acquisition of Advicare Corp.'s Medicaid business, which includes the transfer of approximately 30,000 members to WellCare of South Carolina.
River Hospital in Alexandria Bay, New York, has unveiled plans to renovate the campus' main building and construct a new facility for integrated primary and behavioral care.