Improving predictive analytics capabilities may be key to advancing providers’ population health strategies and their ability to engage in value-based contracting, according to Emily Sokol,...
A retrospective study of brain tissue samples and FDA-approved may have stumbled on an existing therapy for Alzheimer's disease.
Commonly Used Pill Gives Hope for Individuals with...
As the pandemic winds down, providers and payers are set for serious conversations about telehealth reimbursement and payment parity now that the modality has shown its real potential for improving...
Healthcare is increasingly reliant on data analytics strategies. Population health measures are no exception, as they depend heavily on analytics to monitor metrics for large groups of patients, fill...
While the pandemic has likely drawn the bulk of interest over the past two years, healthcare price transparency has returned to the fore and new evidence suggests hospitals are not doing their...
Healthcare mergers and acquisitions make sense from a business perspective, but they are causing industry stakeholders and federal officials to ask questions about market competition and consumer...
The coming winter could prove calamitous for the healthcare industry due to a perfect storm of staffing shortages, COVID-19, and flu season. Clearly, more relief and mitigation efforts...
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...
The pandemic has revealed some harsh realities about health equity in the United States. And thanks to more analysis of relief funds, the hits keep on coming.
COVID-19 Relief Funds Failed to Help...
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...
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...
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...
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...
