Population Health

Weingart Foundation also gave $7.5 million. The South Los Angeles' medical group will use the $15 million to help eliminate the physician shortage problem, which it estimates to be about 1,200 primary care and specialty doctors too few in the area.

The condition is costing the overall economy at least $80 billion per year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and that means providers, researchers and IT vendors should pinpoint better disease management techniques to reduce that expense.

Forming even informal arrangements with Area Agencies on Aging can help a hospital's bottom line by keeping 30-day readmission rates down and reduce avoidable nursing home usage as part of population health management programs.

Wide variations in hospital performances can have a major financial impact on patients, health systems and surrounding communities, according to researchers at the health system.

Opioids and heroin play a big role, but so do variations in primary care and mental health services.

Low early testing levels and poor access to care among disadvantaged populations is driving up the expense.

AMA report finds 75.6 percent of physicians had practices that treated uninsured patients in 2016, compared to 81.3 percent in 2012.

Report argues hospitals must prepare protocols for dealing with ICE enforcement, ensure safe place for immigrants seeking care.

In Massachusetts alone, the number of people with three or more chronic diseases is expected to grow from 625,000 in 2015 to 1.7 million by 2030.

American Medical Association survey finds in 43 percent of metropolitan areas, a single health insurer had at least a 50 percent share of the market.