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The rapid pace of change for hospitals and healthcare systems has been accelerating over the last several years.
My long-time self-paying patient opined that the end of fee-for-service payments was imminent. I lightheartedly asked her how physicians would be paid. Would they be housed in military barracks and given vouchers for necessaries?
Field testing of new models of healthcare delivery and payment often reveal unanticipated challenges and benefits in efforts to achieve targeted outcomes.
Maine Medical Center's Vice President of Development and former chair of the board of directors for the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy (AHP), Susan Doliner, believes there's reason to be optimistic when it comes to the 2013 fundraising outlook for hospitals and healthcare systems.
While Connecticut's 2014-2015 budget has yet to be finalized, hospitals and healthcare systems in the state are claiming that Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's proposed cuts of more than $500 million in hospital funding over the next two years would be devastating.
With doctors across the country continually on pins and needles regarding their reimbursement rates, proponents of telemedicine and telehealth are telling doctors the technologies offer them a stable revenue stream and lifestyle options.
In order for the country's healthcare system to survive in the next few years, every healthcare provider is going to have no choice but to make innovative changes and involve patients in the care process. So said longtime health IT advocate C. Peter Waegemann, founder of the now-defunct Medical Records Institute, during a webinar Thursday.
A report issued this week by the Government Accountability Office reports that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services overpaid the Medicare Advantage program run by private health insurers by between $3.2 billion and $5.1 billion for the years 2010-2012.
Management consulting firm Deloitte and Intermountain Healthcare have forged a five-year deal that will see the companies tap into nearly two trillion unique medical data elements collected over 40 years, with the goal of gaining treatment insights that can be shared with physicians, hospitals, manufacturers, vendors and payers across the country.
Immigration reform is once again being taken up in the country's capital, and depending on the final shape it takes, it could be a boon for the long-term care industry.