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By Jeff Lagasse | 02:39 pm | April 28, 2016
The report is intended to reveal multiple inefficiencies in how large U.S. businesses manage their expenses.
By Jeff Lagasse | 03:48 pm | April 25, 2016
About 71 percent of healthcare executives expect their revenues to increase in 2016 and 55 percent expect to seek financing in the next 12 months, a new study released Monday by CIT Group has found.
By Kaiser Health News | 08:17 am | April 15, 2016
If you have cancer, chances are your outpatient chemotherapy treatment costs are higher if your oncologist works for a healthcare system than if he/she has her own practice, a recent study found.
By Kaiser Health News | 09:15 am | April 07, 2016
Medical errors are estimated to be the third-highest cause of death in the country. Experts and patient safety advocates are trying to change that. But at least one of the tools that's been considered a fix isn't yet working as well as it should, suggests a report released Thursday.
By Jeff Lagasse | 03:51 pm | April 04, 2016
Healthcare CEOs are increasingly focused on business-level issues, a new report by The Advisory Board has found, as consumerism continues to reshape the industry.
By Susan Morse | 02:45 pm | April 04, 2016
For primary care physicians, the difference is $225,000 a year for men versus $192,000 for women. For specialists, it's $242,000 versus $173,000. However, the salaries of women increased by a greater percentage than their male counterparts.
By Jeff Lagasse | 11:03 am | April 04, 2016
A majority of Americans, between 58 and 71 percent, don't see price and care as intricately linked, according to findings published in Health Affairs. However, a substantial minority, 21 to 24 percent, believe there is some correlation. Eight to 16 percent said they didn't know.
By Jeff Lagasse | 02:31 pm | March 31, 2016
A group of researchers has proposed a method for making expensive treatments for cancer, hepatitis C and other rare diseases more affordable: healthcare loans. They effectively work like a home mortgage and spread out payments for expensive treatments over time.
By Jeff Lagasse | 10:22 am | March 30, 2016
The healthcare system in the United States is spending billions per year unnecessarily by continuing to use manual administrative processes for basic transactions, according to the 2015 CAQH Index released Wednesday.
By Jeff Lagasse | 09:44 am | March 30, 2016
A new analysis of data shows patients spend about $17 billion annually treating potentially avoidable complications of diabetes, said researchers at the Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute.