Jeff Lagasse
There was no link found between the penetration of value-based payment models and growth in the total cost of care for Medicare or commercial payers.
Kidney transplantation is more cost-effective and associated with better health outcomes than dialysis, the authors said.
Most initiatives generally lack a foundation of consumer insights and analytics, and favor traditional over innovative approaches.
Researchers looked at 3 states with different policies and found a risk of low-income patients staying or becoming uninsured because of work requirements, health savings and premiums.
Sculley, who is now CMO of RxAdvance, weighs in on what the next phase of big deals signals for the healthcare industry's future.
Offering payment to Medicare providers allowed communities to scale up high-quality clinical training for advanced practice nurses in the settings where they're most needed.
Telehealth and other new tools for virtual care enable doctors to see more patients and regain a semblance of control over their workflows.
The more tech initiatives an organization has undertaken, the more likely they are to rate themselves ahead of the competition.
The percentage of hospitals achieving zero infections has declined dramatically since 2015, indicating many patients are still at risk.
While this trend was consistent across the vast majority of states, there were larger increases among states that expanded Medicaid.