Medicare & Medicaid
The collaboration expands the ability of National Alliance coalitions and their employer/purchaser members to drive change in their respective markets.
There was no link found between the penetration of value-based payment models and growth in the total cost of care for Medicare or commercial payers.
Precedent-setting case will affect providers nationwide when they feel insurers have breached their contracts, according to attorney.
Kidney transplantation is more cost-effective and associated with better health outcomes than dialysis, the authors said.
Researchers looked at 3 states with different policies and found a risk of low-income patients staying or becoming uninsured because of work requirements, health savings and premiums.
Offering payment to Medicare providers allowed communities to scale up high-quality clinical training for advanced practice nurses in the settings where they're most needed.
The percentage of hospitals achieving zero infections has declined dramatically since 2015, indicating many patients are still at risk.
New research also reveals that customers want less expensive care, ways to understand benefits and incentives for healthy behaviors.
While this trend was consistent across the vast majority of states, there were larger increases among states that expanded Medicaid.
Town Hall Ventures, Amazon and Socially Determined are bringing a new focus to a long-neglected part of the healthcare industry.