Home-based testing could be a less expensive way to improve preventive care.
Hospitals can't go back to their old ways. They need high-tech, high-touch strategies to engage patients.
A look at the challenges hospitals face due to an insufficient supply chain—and how to address them.
Adding tax-preferred savings, perhaps with an employer match, can prompt employees to accumulate assets so they are prepared to shoulder out-of-pocket costs. Using reference-based pricing can establish benchmark fees and put a ceiling on payments across a network.
Insurers can assist with navigating the complexities of the healthcare system so caregivers can focus on what matters most — spending quality time with a loved one.
Medicine is both an art and a science. Some physicians would contend that science—specifically data science—has overtaken medicine and limited their ability to make decisions based on informed intuition and personal experience.
Increasing the practice of evidence-based care is vital to improving the quality and efficiency of care in the U.S. To push more providers to adopt evidence-based medicine, we must reward high-quality patient outcomes - not high volumes.
Technology can help cut back on unnecessary administrative tasks, improve task efficiency and better preserve staff resources.
At a time like this, it is important for providers and health systems to establish an OBGYN communication strategy to ensure existing and prospective patients are aware of the precautions their obstetricians are taking to safely deliver babies and conduct routine appointments for those who are, or plan to become, pregnant.
The head of a gastroenterologist group criticizes the company for having a "slapdash approach."
For opportunistic fraudsters and medical predators, the relaxation, suspension or outright elimination of restrictions on the use of telehealth technology presents a plethora of opportunities previously unseen.
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth was more of a stretch goal than a reality for most providers despite the seeming prevalence of video conferencing.
Although the importance of comprehensive records management programs is not a new phenomenon, over the last few months events surrounding COVID-19 have brought records management into increased focus.
OSHA issued new "emergency temporary standards" for healthcare employers that create new rules for personal protective equipment (PPE), isolation in case of contact and other measures designed to protect workers and patients from COVID-19.
The scientific community has the urgent opportunity to produce more research on the proven health benefits of testosterone and other hormones for women.
Amid the nursing shortage, hospitals can create better working conditions through these three technology solutions.
The opportunity for health insurers is to implement a well-designed cost estimator tool that goes beyond compliance to the new CMS rule and meets member and health insurer market trends by integrating more quality and cost metrics with an easy-to-use member interface.
COVID-19 pandemic may present an opportunity to hit a reset button on American healthcare that could winnow out unnecessary, wasteful services and prescriptions.
With the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services extension on claims submissions coming to an end in 2024, health plans must separate fact from fiction around proactive risk adjustment to confidently submit claims for accurate reimbursement.
Interoperability was theme at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) meeting last week in Chicago. How can all that talk and aspiration be turned into action?
The healthcare industry needs to better align with consumers around this notion and their broader perception of what constitutes value.
The country is becoming more diverse. Health plans need to adapt by making their provider networks as diverse as possible and committing to diversity in their management ranks.
The Office of Civil Rights published a proposed rule that could have healthcare organizations evaluating their practices surrounding, and interactions with, reproductive healthcare information.
Amid struggling providers, furloughs of essential workers, years of premium increases and record high earnings, for-profit health plans should consider options for directly helping their networks.
There is a bias in this country against people whose medical condition is perceived to be “their fault”– in other words, the result of their own lifestyle choices. To combat stigma and its harmful effects, there needs to be broader understanding, even among medical professionals.
The purpose of the federal vaccine safety reporting system often is misunderstood, and its data can be easily used to spread false information about vaccination. A new report from the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania looks at how it was manipulated to raise doubts about COVID-19 vaccines and suggests remedies.
Healthcare will continue its evolution toward value-based reimbursement models in 2023 as provider organizations, commercial payers and government programs seek more ways to improve health outcomes while reducing costs.