Population Health
Tucked in remarks the president made Tuesday on the opioid epidemic was his announcement of a new task force on mental health parity -- aimed at ensuring that people with mental illnesses and substance abuse problems don't face discrimination in the health care system.
Many states -- including some that have been hardest hit by the opioid crisis -- don't know how many of their youngest residents each year are born physically dependent on those drugs.
Cholesterol test results obtained through Theranos Inc. were substantially different than those from large laboratory companies, implying that doctors' medical decisions could be thrown off by Theranos-acquired results, a study finds.
Authors liken drug loans to mortgages, noting that both can enable consumers to buy big-ticket items requiring a hefty up-front payment that they could not otherwise afford.
The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research has announced the six academic centers in the United States and Germany that will host the second class of the Edmond J. Safra Fellowship in Movement Disorders, part of a long-standing partnership between the two foundations.
When California's aid-in-dying law takes effect this June, terminally ill patients who decide to end their lives could be faced with a hefty bill for the lethal medication. It retails for more than $3,000.
Although primary care doctors frequently see patients with depression, they typically do less to help those patients manage it than they do for patients with other chronic conditions such as diabetes, asthma or congestive heart failure, a recent study found.
Patient perception of value and hospital choice, patient migration and payer mix are among the most serious challenges facing community hospitals in Massachusetts, according to a study released earlier this week by the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission.
An $11.8 million federal diabetes prevention model tested at the YMCA saved Medicare about $2,650 for each person enrolled, enough to cover the cost of the program, according to an announcement Wednesday by Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell.
As hospitals and health systems face constant revenue stream pressures, financial managers are leveraging cost containment strategies that lean on population health, supply chain management and salary adjustments as a way trim costs.