Hospitals and physicians must be diligent in the implementation of their meaningful use business or strategic plan.
The Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CCJR), has organizations’ leadership wondering how they will be able to perform in such a model. Here are some tips.
Today’s value-focused economy was a primary discussion point at a recent roundtable of health plan CEOs. The discussion led to five essential attributes that organizations must embrace to thrive.
Clinically Integrated Networks (CINs) are evolving quickly across the country in response to changing reimbursement trends and the move to value-based payments.
Clinically Integrated Networks (CINs) are evolving quickly across the country in response to changing reimbursement trends and the move to value-based payments.
This might be the year when it becomes clear, perhaps painfully so, whether or not biosimilars can deliver on cost savings expectations.
Tips to help healthcare executives present their most authentic selves during remote interviews.
Federal antitrust officials are determining how, and if, transactions will move forward. Here's a roadmap of what's ahead in 2016.
The solution to succeeding in value-based reimbursement models is to start inside the hospital with high acuity patients and build the systems that support them.
Innovation will be necessary to compete for consumers in the new market environment. Using data effectively can help plans stand out.
While forming risk-based entities among Medicaid providers could be an effective way to better manage the care of low-income populations, the risk of unintended consequences cannot be ignored. A key hedge against these consequences is better use of patient data.
Here are four critical considerations that are integral to successful implementation of a value-based payment model.
Unnecessary diagnostic tests are harmful to patients and costly for health plans.
Since posting its lowest annual growth rate in more than six years, the average cost of healthcare services accelerated in May and June.
Sometimes in our technology-driven environment, we get into a fixed routine of the current standard of care for our patients. What would we see or hear if we saw our practice or facility through the eyes and ears of our patients?
The hope is that more biosimilars will lead to more access and more affordable medications, but biosimilar uptake is lagging. Here’s why and how FDA hopes to fix it.
Healthcare providers have increasingly entered into value-based contracts with payers in recent years because they offer the opportunity to increase revenue-the primary driver of change for any business.
Effective maintenance of patient records, registration information, human resources documentation, and reimbursement forms are critical to the IT success of the four-hospital Saint Clare's Health System, in northwestern New Jersey. The hospital system, which houses more than 475 active beds, serves 23,000 inpatients and 250,000 outpatients annually.
In 2007, healthcare providers will face identity and access management challenges that will directly impact compliance, security and audit issues.
Consumerism in health benefits has moved beyond buzzword status to a mainstream strategy. Increasingly, health plans and employers view consumerism with a global approach to benefits-a collaboration with employees financially, organizationally and personally.
Healthcare gaming has made progress in the past year by allowing consumers to engage in health via mobile devices.
The leading problems that endocrinologists and educators see from their daily interactions with diabetes patients.
In a move toward accountable care, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Assn. (BCBSA) has established a policy that denies acute care hospitals reimbursement for certain never events.
The growing availability of direct-to-consumer genetic tests highlights the need for validating and interpreting the tests’ results.
Secondary use of electronic data from claims and clinical sources will drive savings
More than 4 million annual provider visits, including visits to the ER, can be attributed to adverse drug events
The state’s desired savings and efficiencies can be realized, but will likely take some effort.
As President Trump intensifies his battle with German Chancellor Angela Merkel over trade and NATO policies, he should pause to consider the lessons from another German Chancellor-Otto von Bismarck.
Among the decisions employers are tackling is whether to keep their group health plans.