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Billing data from Medicare and private insurance billing nationwide shows spending on urine screens and related genetic tests quadrupled from 2011 to 2014 to an estimated $8.5 billion a year
Michigan's Value Partnership program focuses on procedural care, which accounts for more than 50 percent of national healthcare expenses, authors said.
Former UnitedHealthcare CEO Gail K. Boudreaux will take over leadership at the Big 5 insurer on Nov. 20.
Specialty hospitals for cancer, heart and transplant and vision and rehabilitation to be built with the tech company's input on IT design.
Nurses say hospital leaders violated the whistleblower provisions of the Michigan Public Health Code when they refused to accept reports of unsafe conditions in the hospital.
Program, which covers 8 million children, has garnered largely bipartisan support since it took effect in 1997.
For instance, 10 percent weight in the cost performance category is to ease the transition to a 30 percent weight in 2021.
But changes to the safety and clinical care domains will come in 2019, so preparation is key.
Researchers stressed that the most qualified practitioners should be assigned to handle medication orders to keep patients as safe as possible.
The definition of harm as it relates to data breaches has been placed front-and-center in legal cases this year.