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Mark Claster, vice chair of the Board of Trustees at North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, says that, to drive growth, hospitals need to focus on cost control, value-based medicine and managing populations.
Trends in healthcare premiums, plans and consumer utilization may indicate potential changes for the profits of health plans.
As Medicare tightens payments to hospitals, they are cutting their operating costs in order to adjust to reduced revenues instead of shifting costs to private payers, as has been the common belief, a new study by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) found.
Hospitals are cutting their operating costs in order to adjust to reduced revenues as Medicare tightens payments.
Insurance exchange shoppers in 30 states will be able to find at least one health plan operating as both a private insurer and a Medicaid managed care plan -- a good option for lower-income consumers with fluctuating earnings and a solution to the long-time problem of "churn."
After years of decline, enrollment in Texas HMOs has increased 10 percent in each of the last two years, driving strong profits, according to the Texas Health Market Review 2013, an analysis of insurers and hospitals systems operating in the state.
Hospital selection can dramatically affect patient outcomes says a new Healthgrades report examining hospital quality outcomes.
According to a new report by Moody's Investors Service, the health insurance exchanges mandated by the Affordable Care Act may increase risks to credit quality that will pressure not-for-profit hospital revenues in 2014.
The delayed September jobs report was met with disappointment when the Bureau of Labor Statistics released it this morning. Even the usually strong healthcare numbers were uninspiring, remaining nearly unchanged from August.
A lawyer with deep experience in the pharmaceutical industry is taking the helm of Vermont's Green Mountain Care Board, the regulator charged with controlling healthcare costs and charting a course to single payer.