Susan Morse
South Peninsula Hospital in Homer, Alaska Speech and Language Clinic in Kenai and the Kenai Vision Center say the private company was late in reimbursing payment or failed to pay, resulting in millions in losses, according to the lawsuit.
Among the goals are reducing unnecessary testing, providing coaching, supporting peer-to-peer education and improving tools for patient communication.
What's needed is a commitment from management, clean data, support for stakeholders such as the emergency room, a good data warehouse infrastructure and a support team.
As healthcare providers collect more data on patients than ever, and plan to use it to predict care, healthcare needs to understand the ethical implications, according to experts speaking at the Predictive Analytics World Healthcare conference in Boston Tuesday.
Two hospital case studies presented during at the Predictive Analytics conference in Boston on Tuesday show how looking at data can save providers, physicians and patients both money and time.
Database will reflects more than $350 billion in annual claims, 36 million provider records and more than 700,000 patient reviews.
The Part D Enhanced Medication Therapy Management model will give selected Medicare Prescription Drug Plans flexibility to design programs to improve health and lower costs, CMS announced Monday.
In January, Rooney pleaded guilty and admitted that from 2005 to 2010, he was employed as a consultant by two medical device development and sales companies, Altiva Corporation and Allure Spine Consulting.
A federal judge has partly sided with providers in ordering the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid to provide further justification for the 0.2 percent payment reduction in provider compensation that will kick in under the two-midnight rule, according to the September 21 ruling in U.S. District Court in Washington D.C.
Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli on Friday defended, without apology, his decision to up the price of the drug Daraprim from $3.50 a pill to $750, during MedHed's online interview Friday at medcitynews.com.