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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.
LAS VEGAS -- Technological innovation is used often in healthcare to improve patient outcomes, but when it comes to children, aggregating data at the individual and population level is critical, said Stephen Quirk, CEO of Youth Emergency Services and Shelter in Des Moines, Iowa, and Larry Seltzer, general manager and senior director of Netsmart, in a presentation at HIMSS16 on Wednesday.
UCLA has sold its royalty interest connected with a leading prostate cancer medication, Xtandi, the development of which was based on discoveries by campus researchers, for just over $1 billion, UCLA announced over the weekend.
LAS VEGAS - Newly expanded health IT vendor CPSI has introduced nTrust, a program designed to help community hospitals and skilled nursing facilities improve financial operations while moving into an electronic health records system with no upfront costs, CPSI said. The vendor unveiled the program last week at the 2016 Annual HIMSS Conference and Exhibition.
LAS VEGAS -- The HIMSS Revenue Cycle Improvement Task Force is asking for case studies of patient financial experiences to make recommendations for improvements that will help providers deal with the estimated 30 percent of bad debt that plagues health systems.
LAS VEGAS -- Online and mobile tools can improve not just patient engagement and health outcomes, but a physician practice's bottom line. That was the message from David Weinstock, MD, and Raymond Magner of Grove Medical Associates in Auburn, Massachusetts, speaking about health technology at HIMSS16 on Wednesday in Las Vegas.