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With healthcare undergoing intense market transformations in payment models, revenue sources and the demands of healthcare innovation, leaders in the field need to focus on actively managing the move to value-based payments and accelerate their planning for these transitions.
In its latest budget outlook update, the Congressional Budget Office has once again marked down its forecast for Medicare spending, but the nonpartisan agency also noted that spending on the program (and on Medicaid) is still expected to grow faster than the economy, reaching 14.4 percent of the gross domestic product in 2022.
Healthcare services provider Metropolitan Health Networks is buying two primary care practices in Palm Beach, expanding the company's already-large foothold servicing Medicare members and hinting at its future goals.
Venture capital (VC) funding in the life sciences sector, which includes the biotechnology and medical device industries, decreased 39 percent in dollars and 22 percent in number of deals in Q2 2012 compared with Q2 2011, according to PricewatershouseCoopers' recent MoneyTree report. Many industry analysts think this downward trend is likely to continue.
A new report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) showed that half of all the billings paid by Medicare in 2010 to community mental health centers for the partial hospitalization program were questionable.
With an increasing demand for home care services, home care businesses have been springing up in communities across the country. And with the rapid expansion of these largely unregulated businesses questions about the industry's hiring practices have begun to surface.
Healthcare employees have a decreased confidence in the U.S. economy as a whole but feel optimistic about their personal employment prospects, according to the recently released Randstad Healthcare Employee Confidence Index.
Medicare- and Medicaid-focused health insurers continue to be the most sought after dance partners of the acquisition ball, as evidenced by yesterday's announcement that Aetna would purchase Coventry Health Care in a cash and stock deal valued at $5.7 billion.
Johnson City, TN-based Mountain States Health Alliance (MSHA) has been named the recipient of the NQF's 2012 National Quality Healthcare Award. MSHA is the nineteenth organization to receive the honor.
Medicare- and Medicaid-focused health insurers continue to be the darlings of the acquisition ball, as evidenced by yesterday's announcement that Aetna would purchase Coventry Health Care in a cash and stock deal valued at $5.7 billion.