Community Benefit
CMS has announced final federal share disproportionate share hospital (DSH) allotments for FY 2009 and the preliminary allotments for FY 2011.
With help from a $535,000 grant, the Kansas Academy of Family Physicians is launching a patient-centered medical home initiative this month.
An accountable care organization in Texas is providing healthcare services that improve patient care and outcomes through a network of patient-centered medical home clinics instead of a hospital, according to a case study from the American Academy of Family Physicians.
A recent post-open enrollment survey conducted by HighRoads indicates that employees worry most about the rising cost of healthcare coverage, followed by coverage cancellation and new taxes on healthcare benefits.
Defibrillators designed for use at home - though considered a new, very small area of the homecare products market - boast the highest forecasted annual growth in the homecare segment, according to Kalorama Information.
The number of health savings accounts and health reimbursement accounts continued to rise in 2010, numbering 5.7 million accounts, according to the Employee Benefit Research Institute. Assets in these accounts also increased to $7.7 billion.
The Camden Group has released its annual Top 10 Trends in Healthcare in 2011, which finds pressures to reduce costs and improve quality in healthcare will trigger an avalanche of activity centered on accountable care organizations, bundled payments and patient-centered medical homes.
With unemployment high and state budgets tight, a recent survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation's Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured found nearly all states maintained or made targeted expansions of their Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program eligibility and enrollment rules in 2010.
Nearly one in three doctors cite practice management costs and administrative burdens as a chief concern for their practice, according to a new survey.
The Cleveland Clinic plans to create a program that would focus on patient-physician collaboration.