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Provider directories for some health plans sold through Covered California and in the private market are so inaccurate that they create an "awful" situation for consumers trying to find doctors, according to the lead author of a new study published in the journal Health Affairs.
Integrated healthcare delivery and financing company UPMC is taking steps to thwart wasteful spending and high costs in forming an independent company called Pensiamo, which aims to help hospitals improve supply chain performance with a source-to-pay offering, including cognitive analytics with IBM Watson Health Technologies.
Trump's plan would allow health insurers to remove costlier benefits in exchange for less expensive premiums.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced Thursday that it has barred Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes from the blood-testing business for two years, according to a statement on the company's website.
The measure preserving the State Health Insurance Assistance Program, known as SHIP, is part of a massive spending bill for federal health, education and labor programs, approved by the Republican majority of the House appropriations subcommittee that oversees those departments.
HCA East Florida, a division of the Hospital Corporation of America, will inject about $650 million in healthcare facilities in Miami Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, and St. Lucie Counties thanks to a new capital investment initiative.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has proposed changes to how it pays doctors and other providers for primary care with a new focus on care management and behavioral health.
The hospital groups urge CMS to address what they say are several significant underlying methodological problems with the program.
A Health Affairs study of national healthcare spending and where it's going shows that purchases of medical services and increased compensation of highly skilled professionals accounted for spending growth in multiple areas between 1997 and 2012. The study looked at hospitals, physician offices and outpatient centers.
The change in leadership comes as the health system continues its focus on population health, value-based care, and new payment models to create a sustainable health system for the region, according to the hospital.