Jeff Lagasse
Increasingly, health leaders are recognizing the need to utilize one or more approaches to the multifaceted problem.
About 71 percent of its total facilities have shown improvement, according to the internal report, with several no longer considered high-risk.
Part of the issue is that consumers are often undisciplined about saving in general, and lack the necessary vocabulary for financial communication.
CMS levies reimbursement penalties against hospitals that underperform on 30-day readmission rates, leaving for-profit hospitals at a disadvantage.
PBMs have been dogged by controversy for years, and yet they've become a fixture -- which David Henka sees as a real problem.
Correlative research finds that Medicare spent nearly $1,000 less per member in counties with a high well-being ranking.
Of that total, $451 million was spent on men who were diagnosed with prostate cancer graded with a Gleason score of 6, considered unworthy of aggressive treatment.
After absorbing Connance, the new Waystar will provide advanced workflow and predictive analytics solutions to health systems and hospitals.
Due to the current political climate in the U.S., the report's authors are concerned that the disparities will only continue to get worse.
That result surprised researchers, since the ACA's Medicaid expansion has increased access to surgical care overall.