Health Management

Integrating programs that address social risk factors will improve health.

Here are the five ways to incentivize positive health actions among beneficiaries.

Learn how analytics can be leveraged to hyper-target members for health reminders.

Medicare Advantage enrollees can expect new benefits with the start of 2019. Here's what healthcare executives should know.

While healthcare is often taken for granted in urban communities, many rural populations struggle to access care. Here’s how one healthcare organization addresses rural impediments and their effects on health.

Four things healthcare executives need to know about patient leakage, and four ways they can fix it.

The Integrated COPD Care Initiative in Alabama aims to reduce hospital readmission rates and acute to post-acute care-associated costs in COPD patients. Here are the results so far and insight from one of the program’s leaders.

MCOs are stepping up their game to ensure members are highly satisfied with their services. Here are some strategies to consider.

While we all want to predict the future so we can avoid obstacles, we cannot allow our desire for clarity to become an obstacle itself.

As immunotherapy breaks through in cancer therapy, here are five things to know about this promising treatment.

As we look to the next year we can expect to see a few of these challenges settle, while others will continue to make headlines. Here are three things healthcare executives should watch.

In these arrangements, drug companies must partially reimburse insurers if the drug fails to earn its keep. Will COPD drugs be included in such arrangements?

Here are ways healthcare providers could improve online ratings and better connect with their customers.

Frail patients are a  forgotten patient group-here’s how they were left behind and what can be done about it.

The value and benefits of biosimilars are increasingly becoming more apparent. Here are four areas where they are growing the most.

Here is the one surprising thing that improves patients’ ability to effectively manage their own health.

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.

How Froedtert Hospital achieves success with a 24/7/365 cancer clinic.

How continuous glucose monitors work, how doctors prescribe them, and whether payers are covering them.

A chief executive officer must have a more diverse team to address the rising complexity and velocity of healthcare. Here are four positions that managed care organizations may want to seriously consider.

It can be tricky for individuals with this condition to effectively tackle their diabetes. Here’s how healthcare executives can help.

Patients must first get over these hurdles to achieve healthy outcomes. Here's how you can help.

Preventable hospital readmissions, an objective measure of quality, have long been a concern for health plans. Here’s a care plan that could be the solution.

Healthcare stakeholders can impact a patient’s health by leveraging available capabilities and resources to help achieve better health outcomes and address this opioid epidemic.

Dealing with cancer is challenging enough for patients and providers. But even when their different perspectives are factored in, that’s not the whole story.