Quality and Safety
This is the first time state comparisons can be made on quality health measures.
Kaiser Permanente found that hospitals can bolster patient satisfaction scores and increase revenue by decreasing levels of opioid prescriptions.
CMS head Seema Verma calls national efforts to improve patient safety that saved 8,000 lives and $2.9 billion a tremendous accomplishment.
New research found that community HIEs produce better results when it comes to reducing both costs and the use of unnecessary services, such as imaging and procedures.
Patients trust ratings on sites such as Healthgrades, Yelp and Zocdoc but both negative and positive reviews alike can be misleading.
More than 7 percent of the Medicare budget is spent on managing patients with end-stage renal disease.
Hospitals that kept costs the lowest used data to get a full picture of options, did benchmark pricing against peers, and got buy-in from surgical staff on the effort.
When practices merge, duplication and miscommunication can be unhappy side effects that have negative consequences for both finances and clinical quality. Here are missteps to avoid.
Those results add to evidence showing support for social service programs can improve community health outcomes and reduce healthcare spending.
Being forced to provide inferior care due to the patient's immigration status was a significant burden to the clinicians.