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Each year, a large portion of healthcare spending is on services for which consumers could price-shop ahead of time, a new study finds, suggesting that price transparency is an important factor in cutting down on healthcare costs.
58 percent of hospital executives say, thanks to current challenges in the hospital and healthcare industry, substantial changes to their business models in the "near term" are a must for survival. That's a key and compelling finding in a new survey released by Prudential and conducted by the The Economist Intelligence Unit.
Despite efforts to shift provider payment away from fee-for-service and toward more risk-based alternatives, fee-for-service remains dominant -- and is growing, according to a study published in Health Affairs.
DataMotion Health has released the results of a survey it conducted during the 2016 HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition, which took place last week in Las Vegas, that show Hillary Clinton as the clear frontrunner when it comes to health IT professionals, providers, executives and other industry personnel.
The healthcare sector represented the largest share of initial public offerings by deal count in 2015, says a report released Tuesday by Proskauer's Capital Markets Group.
Retail clinics, long seen as an antidote to more expensive doctor offices and emergency rooms, may actually boost medical spending by leading consumers to get more care, a new study shows.
Medical practices spend an average of 785 hours per physician and $15.4 billion annually reporting quality measures to Medicare, Medicaid and private insurers, according to a new report in Health Affairs.
LAS VEGAS -- Mitt Romney ran down the list of Presidential candidates and suggested ways each might change healthcare as president.
A recent analysis by the Health Care Cost Institute has found that less than 7 percent of total healthcare spending in 2011 was paid by consumers for what it called "shoppable" services.
LAS VEGAS - The Staten Island Performing Provider System is running into all of the challenges inherent in implementing a value-based model for Medicaid payment reform in New York State.