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Todd Ostendorf previously held CFO roles with North Memorial Health Care and UnitedHealth Group's Complex Population Management.
Accountable care organizations that participated in the first full year of Medicare Shared Savings saw early reductions in spending that eroded a year later, according to a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The number of potentially deadly infections from contaminated medical scopes is far higher than what federal officials previously estimated, a new congressional investigation shows.
If you have cancer, chances are your outpatient chemotherapy treatment costs are higher if your oncologist works for a healthcare system than if he/she has her own practice, a recent study found.
If finalized, the affiliation would create an organization with 181 locations in Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee, employing more than 4,500 people and serving an estimated 150,000 patients.
On the reservation, IHS facilities often don't have services that people elsewhere expect, such as emergency departments or MRI machines. And those limited facilities can be hours away by car. Clinics also don't have enough funding to meet all of the health needs of the community. And people can't get the free drugs they are entitled to through the IHS anywhere but an IHS facility.
While support for the provisions of the ACA are on the rise, along with a willingness to let the law work instead of repealing it, individual opinions are more strongly influenced by party identification and their trust in government.
Jaques Roy's conviction, along with three home health agency owners, is the culmination of a six-week trial in which the jury deliberated for less than two days before delivering their verdict on the landmark $375 million scheme. The DOJ confirmed this is the biggest home health fraud ever for Medicare and Medicaid.
Customers at their corner CVS Health MinuteClinics in Ohio now can access clinicians at the prestigious Cleveland Clinic via online and mobile telehealth technology from vendor American Well.
In the battle against America's surging opioid drug addiction, 49 states, the District of Columbia and even Guam have all implemented some kind of PMDP. Missouri is the only state that hasn't. A protracted political battle has kept the state from passing a law to establish one. That leaves pharmacists like Logan with few options.