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Do I have enough information? While that's a question that tugs on people's minds as they grapple with all sorts of decisions, it may be most persistent, and most significant, to doctors determining how best to treat their patients.
While the healthcare sector overall gained nearly 11,000 jobs in May, gains were significantly lower than the average of 24,000 a month over the prior 12-month period.
As convergence around the needs of patients and consumers intensifies, payers, providers, and employers are collaborating beyond their traditional boundaries. IBM's Institute for Business Value and the AHIP Foundation's Institute for Health Systems Solutions recently conducted research on this issue and its implications and will release their findings at this week's 2013 AHIP Institute.
Summa Health System and Catholic Health Partners are on the road to becoming accountable care organizations, and they're sharing what they've learned with attendees of the Healthcare Financial Management Association's ANI 2013 conference taking place next week in Orlando, Fla.
The 2013 AHIP Institute will drill down to specific healthcare topics through its concurrent sessions, including one that will explore the "patient-centered financial home," which extends consumer engagement from clinical care delivery to benefits and payments.
The Connecticut Attorney General has reached a settlement with the owner of six dental management and consulting firms accused of Medicaid fraud.
Lee Aase, director of the Center for Social Media at Mayo Clinic, talked to Healthcare Finance News to share his keys to a successful social media marketing plan.
A report from Premier healthcare alliance has found that commercial payers do not offer as many of the upside-only payment arrangements for shared savings that are popular among early accountable care organizations (ACOs) as public payers do.
Contrary to conventional thinking, retail clinics are being used more by people with higher incomes than those with lower incomes finds a recent study by Kalorama Information.
Not-for-profit hospitals are feeling the pinch as their pension plans take a bigger bite out of their budget. The culprit, according to a recent Standard and Poor's report, is low discount rates, which have eroded the funding status of defined benefit (DB) plans in 2012.