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Patients are looking for doctors who will check up on them and offer guidance between office visits says a new report, "A Fragile Nation in Poor Health," a look at why patients don't follow their doctors' treatment plans and what solutions are available to the healthcare community.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has launched the Health Care Innovation Challenge, which will award $1 billion in grants in March to test inventive and compelling methods to deliver high quality medical care at lower costs to individuals enrolled in Medicare, Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program.
In healthcare, one-size-fits-all doesn't have to be the national model for holding down costs and offering high quality care said speakers at "Building a World-Class System: Better Business, Better Health."
Thomson Reuters today released its thirteenth annual study identifying the 50 top U.S. hospitals for inpatient cardiovascular care.
Chronically and seriously ill adults who received care from a medical home were less likely to report medical errors, test duplication and other care coordination failures, according to a new international survey from the Commonwealth Fund.
Bundling payments to providers as a means to cut healthcare costs is proving harder to do than originally anticipated, according to a new study from non-profit research organization Rand Corp.
A one-year-old accountable care organization established by Allina Hospitals & Clinic and payer HealthPartners has reported that it reduced medical cost by $6 million in 2010 and reduced the medical cost trend to 3 percent compared with 8 percent in 2009.
So far this year, more than 2.2 million people with Medicare have saved more than $1.2 billion on their prescriptions, for an average of $550 per person, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced Friday.
The Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) enables frail Medicare beneficiaries still in their homes to access medical and social services in the community.
Wisconsin hospitals generate $28 billion in annual economic activity for the state, according to a study released Thursday by the University of Wisconsin-Cooperative Extension Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics and the Wisconsin Hospital Association (WHA).