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Being surveyed to participate in the Medicare program is usually seen as an onerous task by most healthcare facilities, but the hospice community wants to be surveyed more frequently, even if the cost of those surveys comes out of its own pocket.
It is becoming clearer that it will take time, strategy and investment for accountable care organizations to hit their anticipated mark. During the summer, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reported that all 32 Pioneer ACOs had improved quality of care for its participants, but only 13 were able to lower the cost of that care enough to share in the savings.
Hospitals that utilize mobile health vans will tell anyone that bringing needed services to people in underserved areas improves population health, but with accountability and cost effectiveness increasingly important, there is a need to understand the potential financial return on this kind of service.
In this age of dwindling resources and competing priorities, nutrition research holds the key to increasing our understanding of the causes of obesity and its related co-morbidities and holds promise to markedly influence global health and economies.
Medical identity theft is on the rise and hasn't shown signs of slowing down anytime soon, according to a new report released Thursday.
Our weekly look at career moves in the healthcare finance sector. This issue highlights promotions, hires and fires for the week ending September 13, 2013.
With labor costs in 2013 accounting for approximately 60 percent of hospital and health system operating budgets, many healthcare systems and hospitals have begun assessing high-labor cost areas with an eye to curbing those costs.
With health insurance exchanges opening Oct. 1, it will be essential that health plans pursue and keep up a high level of consumer awareness.
Given the uneven financial performance of the Pioneer ACOs, C-suite executives are no doubt wondering: What secret sauce allows some ACOs to succeed while others fall short of their financial goals?
Because models for accountable care organizations are so new, it's difficult to predict if they will develop along the lines evident today, or morph into something else.