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Adverse events cost the healthcare industry billions of dollars. According to a 2010 report in the Archives of Internal Medicine, hospital-acquired sepsis and pneumonia in the United States caused more than 48,000 deaths and cost more than $8 billion to treat in a single year.
Brian Goldberg, an architecture teacher at the Rhode Island School of Design, said he was talking to a physicist about the development of a medical device for patients who need 24/7 monitoring for a heart attack for the rest of their lives when he began to think of how artists and designers could impact the healthcare system.
In an April 13 televised speech, President Barack Obama outlined his plan for reducing the federal deficit and cutting Medicare costs. Unlike the GOP plan, he said, his plan would "use a scalpel, not the machete."
The proposed regulations for accountable care organizations released March 31 by the Department of Health and Human Services represent one of the first delivery-reform initiatives to be implemented under the Affordable Care Act.
It’s not unusual for nursing home patients to spend the last weeks of their lives in acute care hospitals even if they have made it known that they don’t want to end their days there.
As the administrative burdens associated with Medicare pile up, some doctors are growing frustrated and walking away from the program or limiting the number of Medicare patients they see.
The long-term care industry is one of the largest employers in the United States, yet its direct care workers are woefully underinsured, according to a new analysis.
A new face-to-face meeting requirement for home healthcare patients receiving Medicare has left some physicians and home healthcare groups disgruntled and industry experts shaking their heads at the idea that it will prevent fraud and waste.
The House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee is looking at ways to move beyond the Sustainable Growth Rate formula, the current method of paying Medicare physicians.
The GOP has unveiled separate bills to repeal 'maintenance of effort' requirements for Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Programs - an action they say is necessary to help states balance their budgets in the face of ballooning healthcare costs.