While pandemic relief funds may have enabled leading hospitals to weather the storm of COVID-19, quite a few hospitals anticipate significant losses during the second year of the pandemic.
Hospital...
Fee-for-service reimbursement is still an integral part of the healthcare system as providers are scattered along a spectrum of payment models, Emily Sokol, director of research at Xtelligent...
As the coronavirus pandemic persists into 2021 and the mental health crisis swells, healthcare stakeholders can take an active role in helping to reduce mental health stigmas.
Lana Seiler, primary...
Labor Day signals an end to the summer but not the coronavirus as back-to-school begins in earnest.
Moderna Submits Data for COVID-19 Vaccine Booster
Moderna recently submitted initial data to the...
It's back-to-school time, and the healthcare industry is likely to learn a lesson in value-based care from leading accountable care organizations.
MSSP ACOs Saved Medicare More Than $4B in...
Schools are reopening and mask mandates are returning in what should make for interesting conversations during Labor Day barbecues and celebrations.
Convalescent Plasma Unable to Halt COVID-19...
The past year was a difficult one for the nation and the healthcare industry in particular. As it turns out, value-based care could've played an even greater role in improving population health and...
FDA’s full approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine will have implications for mandates alongside the financial motivation coming from more payers regarding cost-sharing for COVID-19 treatments...
The transition to value-based care is inevitable. But choosing the best alternative payment model for each unique patient population means providers must have the right staff, technology, and financial...
A heatwave has set in in the Northeast, and many of us are hot and bothered.
North Carolina Residents File Antitrust Suit Against HCA Healthcare
A group of North Carolina residents has filed a...
Reading the news, it is becoming increasingly difficult to shake feelings of déjà-vu...
AHA Challenges UnitedHealth’s Acquisition of Change Healthcare
In a letter to the...
Right now, the US may boast the most medals from the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. However, new research shows that the country is lagging in most healthcare metrics, including access to care and health...
Let me tell you: A week away from work feels great. Now it's time to turn our attention back to healthcare.
Medicare’s Inpatient Payments Will Increase 2.5% in 2022
CMS has finalized an...
Hospitals were never thrilled with the Hospital Price Transparency rule, and a recent independent review shows they have done little to comply with the regulation aimed at helping consumers choose...
In the modern-day take on A Tale of Two Cities, the threat of COVID-19 has become a matter of where you live, putting clearly in harm's way those without the power to be vaccinated or avoid the...
Figuring out where to begin value-based conversations can be challenging for many providers in private practice, and nurse practitioners are no exception.
The first meaningful step is education,...
Happy Tuesday! Folks on either coast of the United States are facing either record high temperatures or levels of rainfall. As is the case most times, meteorologists are the only ones satisfied.
FDA...
Value-based care efforts center around reducing the costs of care while improving value. To accomplish this, one organization in Central Florida is thinking outside the box by working with community...
While the pandemic shone a bright light on mental health, many Americans faced struggles accessing counseling services due to cost and other barriers. As Delta variant becomes the dominant strain of...
Welcome back to work after a long (and for many in the Northeast rainy) weekend. Direct-to-consumer marketing appears to be paying off for pharma companies as far as Medicare drug spending is...
