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New research finds that the more effective cervical cancer treatment is losing ground to an increasingly popular alternative that generates four times the revenue from Medicare payments.
Even though high-deductible insurance options could save patients thousands of dollars every year, most people are not shopping around for better prices when it comes to low value services.
Community-based nursing homes that participated in this project lowered CAUTI rates by 54 percent.
The system's quarter closed with a $60 million reduction in net income to $227.6 million from $287.6 this time last year, financial documents show.
HIMSS CEO Hal Wolf says the culture of "do no harm" is contending with the culture of innovation and "fail fast."
Expert says transactions are being driven chiefly by strategic imperatives, less so by financial drivers.
Companies with high engagement had a 14.3 percent higher operating margin than others, experts say.
Under the practice model, patients are charged monthly for basic, office-based medical care in Texas, a state that did not expand Medicaid.
In Texas, freestanding EDs tend to be clustered around major metropolitan centers where median income is close to $92,000.
But targeting each clinical scenario individually might not address some of the underlying drivers of this trend.