Affordable Care Act (ACA)
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Penn Medicine Study Sheds Light on Why Low-Income Patients Prefer Hospital Care to a Doctor's Office
Health Reform Initiatives Need to Improve Perceived Quality, Cost and Accessibility of Primary Care to Reduce Low Value Care Read More »
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Physicians Cut Costs By Rejecting Insurance
Rising healthcare costs have been the focus of healthcare reform for quite some time. However, recently several physicians have began rejecting insurance, opting instead for cash based practices in what is heralded as a successful means of decreasing the cost of care. Read More »
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Pitching Medicaid IT in Silicon Valley
Earlier this year, I announced a new effort to connect new, innovative companies and their investors to the state Medicaid program IT space. Since this announcement, I have been encouraged by the initial interest from companies that may not have otherwise ever thought about participating in this important health insurance program that covers more than 72 million Americans. That’s why I’m in Silicon Valley today to participate in a forum on bringing technological advances to Medicaid. The forum is convening states, innovative tech companies, and federal Medicaid officials on how to collaborate to improve the delivery of Medicaid health coverage in states.
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Poor Integration Between Hospital EHRs And NICUs
Responding to my story about lack of funding for electronic health records for pediatric nursing homes, Brian Carter, a superb neonatologist at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, notes... Read More »
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Possible Belarus Connection Prompts Probe Of Healthcare.gov
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services launched a security probe of Healthcare.gov after a U.S. intelligence unit last week warned that portions of the Affordable Care Act website was built by software developers linked to the Belarus government. Read More »
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Premier Survey Shows EHR Buyers' Remorse
Even as healthcare providers across the country are struggling to make their new, expensive technology work, a new survey shows providers are more frustrated with their purchases than ever...
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Premium Article Law's Penalties Spur Dallas-Area Hospitals To Improve Care
A million times a year, [patients suffering from congestive heart failure] are admitted to U.S. hospitals, stabilized and sent home. But it doesn’t last long. Almost a quarter of heart failure patients on Medicare are readmitted within 30 days, as sick as ever. But that’s about to change. Read More »
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Price Transparency Could Lower Costs In The ED
Price transparency can educate emergency department providers about the cost to patients when they undergo procedures--and, as a result, help hospitals address inefficiencies that drive up costs, conclude researchers from the University of California, San Francisco. Read More »
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Private Insurers Have Cost Medicare $282.6 Billion In Excess Payments Since 1985
Researchers say privately run Medicare Advantage plans have undermined traditional Medicare’s fiscal health and taken a heavy toll on taxpayers, seniors and the U.S. economy Read More »
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Profits Vs. Patient Outcomes In The Healthcare Industry
...In my exposure to healthcare delivery worldwide, I learned that this basic ethic of improving the healthcare of all citizens was not universally accepted by industry and providers globally. Cheating on clinical trials, denying health care to large segments of the population due to cultural bias and politicians twisting the rules of reimbursement to maintain the same false share of medical costs for drugs even if their lowered and offset previous government expenditures for hospitalization and morbidity...
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Progress In Health Care Is Still 'Excruciatingly Slow' Says Harvard Expert
I had the opportunity to interview one of the nation’s foremost experts on pay-for-performance and health care quality measurement, Harvard professor Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH. His entertaining and insightful blog “An Ounce of Evidence“ tops my bookmarks. He’s known in the business community for his forceful candor on the need for much more transparency and better payment systems in health care. [...] Read More »
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Providers 'Grappling' With Mobile Plans
Everybody uses mobile devices, but no one is still quite sure how to make the most of them. That, to varying degrees of more-or-lessness, is the upshot of the most recent HIMSS Analytics Mobile Technology Survey, which for the past three years has taken the pulse of an industry still coming to terms with the benefits and risks of mobile technology...
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Providers Increasingly Dissatisfied With EHRs Despite Heavy Investments, According To Premier, Inc. C-suite Survey
Providers nationwide project increased investments in healthcare information technology (HIT) and telecommunications solutions, as well as modern clinical equipment, according to Premier, Inc.’s (NASDAQ: PINC) spring 2014 Economic Outlook C-suite survey...
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Public Sentiment On HealthCare.gov Takes A Nosedive
The public’s impression of HealthCare.gov, the Obama administration’s online health insurance marketplace, remains deeply negative two weeks after its troubled launch, according to an analysis of Twitter sentiment. Read More »
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Puerto Rico’s Health-Care Crisis Threatens the Mainland
Just a few years ago, New York had a health-care crisis on its hands. The state was spending $50 billion a year on Medicaid in 2011 -- more than any other state in the country. Health-care officials in New York worked together to bring down spending, and last year the state introduced an $8 billion plan to repurpose its whole program, with a focus on outpatient care and community health. But now the state is facing another threat to its health-care system: Puerto Rico. America’s biggest territory continues to find itself in serious financial trouble, with a current debt of $72 billion, which the territory’s governor has declared "not payable"...
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