Tammy Worth
Evan Schwartz, founding partner of New York-based law firm Quadrino Schwartz, said his organization used to see the occasional case of private insurers retrospectively auditing health care providers – they only litigated about 10 or so each year.
The Healthy Artists project pulled together students, artists, politicians and the healthcare community to address the issue of lack of insurance in the U.S.
The case for healthcare reform was that insuring more patients would reduce the occurrence of cost shifting, but not everyone agrees that cost shifting is as prevalent as some think.
In most organizations, the "separation of church and state" that lies between advertising and public relations is sacred. This is particularly true in healthcare, where much of the external relations are meant to be educational, no profitable. But times are changing and hospitals across the country are turning to brand journalism to get their message out.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation estimates that healthcare fraud costs are approximately $80 billion annually. To prevent some of the billions from being siphoned from the healthcare system, many organizations are turning toward analytics.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has proposed allowing hospitals in the state to be owned and operated by businesses. Though most states already have business-owned hospitals, this will be a major change for New York state, which has one of the tightest-regulated healthcare industries in the nation.
A new report by Trust for America's Health says prevention improves health and productivity and saves billions, but is prevention really cost effective?
A few years back, the nation’s most notorious junk food junkie had a change of heart. Cookie Monster, who subsisted solely on the chocolate chip cookies, went from singing, “C is for cookie,” to “eat poultry and greens along with your chocolate chips.”
A report released in February found that state scope of practice laws and payment policies are two of the biggest challenges to expanding care provided by nurse practitioners.
A report released last month by the Office of Inspector General found that about one-third of skilled nursing facilities chosen from a random sample were not meeting some of the requirements for Medicare funding.