Susan Morse
Twenty major companies, including American Express, Verizon, Coca-Cola and HCA have joined the newly-launched Health Transformation Alliance to combine data on the population health of their employees, and potentially flex their muscle with insurance companies and big pharma, according to Tevi Troy, president of the American Health Policy Institute.
The last-minute surge lifted the total enrollment in Obamacare to 12.7 million this year, accounting for 9.6 million consumers enrolled or re-enrolled for coverage through Healthcare.gov and the 3.1 million people who selected plans through the state-based marketplaces.
As patient financial responsibilities continue to increase, providers must both adopt and adapt to new technologies and strategies to help patients meet their obligations, or suffer a potentially calamitous drop-off in collections, according to Lah, who has over 30 years of experience in healthcare operations.
Former Turing CEO Martin Shkreli on Thursday invoked his Fifth Amendment rights while members of a Congressional committee grilled pharmaceutical executives about the high price of prescription drugs.
As of February 2, 67 rural hospitals have closed nationwide since 2010 and another 210 are on the brink, according to a study by iVantage Health Analytics.
Huron Consulting Group announced Tuesday it has acquired MyRounding, a firm specializing in digital health solutions to standardize, automate and track nurse and staff rounding activity.
To become a reality, the promise of patient engagement requires good data, communication, transparency, quality measures, and most importantly, listening to the patient's goals, according to experts interviewed Tuesday by The Hill's Bob Cusack and Sarah Ferris.
The Arizona Department of Health Services is reaching out to local doctors to ask them to monitor patients with the disease symptoms.
The Boston Public Health Commission has confirmed that a man in Boston has been infected with the Zika virus and is expected to recover.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Thursday said it will begin taking regional differences into account when measuring the performance of accountable care organizations in the Medicare Shared Savings program, one of several changes announced to the benchmark guidelines in the program.