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Last week, Consumer Reports released new safety scores for 2,591 U.S. hospitals. The magazine is just one of a number of organizations that rates hospitals on safety. Should hospitals care about all these rankings?
Kaiser Permanente is hiring an integrated care specialist but organizational outsider as its new chief medical officer, as the focus on innovation comes to the fore.
As the Affordable Care Act continues to disrupt the health insurance industry, health plans must broaden their definition of risk as they calculate rates and attempt to better understand their members' needs.
The House of Representatives passed a bill yesterday to forestall scheduled cuts to Medicare physician payments through April 1, 2015, to delay the ICD-10 implementation deadline for one year, and to suspend enforcement of the controversial two-midnight policy.
In a recent report, MedPAC identified the common traits of the nation's poorly-performing hospitals. These are traits that have a big impact on hospital financial performance and should be understood by all hospitals -- even if they aren’t performing poorly currently.
Our weekly look at career moves in the healthcare finance sector. This issue highlights promotions, hires and fires for the week ending March 28, 2014.
As the quality and cost transparency movements gain support within the healthcare industry, a more important question persists: what will actually work for consumers?
The many moving parts in the government's ACA plan transition policies are creating a range of new complexities for premium pricing, member pools and the new risk-sharing programs.
All but five states received a failing grade this year on the way they provide healthcare price transparency, according to a report by Catalyst for Payment Reform and the Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute.
Only five states states are making headway bringing more price transparency to healthcare markets, but they could be a model for others, especially those with all-payer claims databases.