Jeff Lagasse
High-need individuals who cost the public or private sectors $50,000 or more in a single year top the list of the most expensive sources of healthcare costs, according to a study released by the American Health Policy Institute.
Integrated healthcare delivery and financing company UPMC is taking steps to thwart wasteful spending and high costs in forming an independent company called Pensiamo, which aims to help hospitals improve supply chain performance with a source-to-pay offering, including cognitive analytics with IBM Watson Health Technologies.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced Thursday that it has barred Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes from the blood-testing business for two years, according to a statement on the company's website.
HCA East Florida, a division of the Hospital Corporation of America, will inject about $650 million in healthcare facilities in Miami Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, and St. Lucie Counties thanks to a new capital investment initiative.
A Health Affairs study of national healthcare spending and where it's going shows that purchases of medical services and increased compensation of highly skilled professionals accounted for spending growth in multiple areas between 1997 and 2012. The study looked at hospitals, physician offices and outpatient centers.
Between 1997 and 2011, there was a nearly 50 percent reduction in emergency department mortality rates for adults in the United States, according to a new study published by Health Affairs.
The National Institutes of Health has announced $55 million in awards in the 2016 fiscal year needed to launch the Cohort Program of President Obama's Precision Medicine Initiative.
One day after Providence Health and Services and St. Joseph Health began operating as a combined nonprofit entity, and the newly-formed health and social services system -- dubbed Providence St. Joseph Health -- said Wednesday that it will use a $100 million investment to create the Institute for Mental Health and Wellness.
Outsourcing costs to vendors like CarePayment, ClearBalance offset by higher collections, executives say.
While the legacy skin test is cheaper in terms of materials, it requires more staff time, and a greater commitment on the part of the patient.