Hospitals & Providers

It’s time for organizations to expand the way they think about and employ PAs by looking at how the profession can impact areas where there are real needs.

Cindy Cooke, president of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, shares 10 ways nurse practitioners reduce healthcare costs while improving quality.

Entresto is the first in a new class of drugs, valsartan combined with sacubitril, a pro-drug of a compound that is a receptor‐neprilysin inhibitor (ARNI). It is taken orally twice daily. It was approved for heart failure patients with reduced ejection fraction based on the PARADIGM-HF trial.

As healthcare systems move toward new payment and delivery models, physicians are the key to success.

Diabetes costs $322 billion per year in the U.S. Help empower consumers for a healthier bottom line.

Texas Children's Hospital has worked hard to increase physician engagement, and the payoff has been huge.

For health plans, the recently announced Anthem-Cigna deal signals that the industry is responding to structural changes in healthcare that have been building over the past few years.

Anthem’s acquisition of Cigna is being called the first “merger of titans” by industry watchers. Here's what to know.

Building on decades of effort to advance diabetes care, HealthPartners of Minnesota, continues to refine its management strategies to meet the individual patient's needs.

Phoenix Children's Hospital's leadership team looked at how the foundational practices of accountable care could be implemented at the pediatric level. Here's what they found.

A recent survey by KPMG identifies key challenges many organizations face in preparing for value-based reimbursement.

Here are four ways to help your organization overcome key hurdles to effective patient communication.

Reducing hospital-acquired infections has become a top priority for hospitals in the face of new penalties from CMS.

A leading pharmaceutical company is partnering with payers to help lower COPD complications.

Clearly, healthcare organizations need to be prepared for a cyber breach. The question, then, is: What steps should we take now to prepare?

How does your health system compare to others when it comes to new initiatives? Recent survey findings from HFMA might provide some answers.

Stuart M. Gerson, member of Epstein Becker Green's Litigation and Health Care & Life Sciences practices, discusses four possible consequences of the King v. Burwell ruling.

Health plans, exchanges and associations share their reactions to the Supreme Court's King V. Burwell ruling.

Creating buy-in among hospital physicians when embarking on a new technology initiative can be difficult. Here are some tips.

Mobile devices are becoming a very real part of the healthcare journey. Are your physicians making the most of their capabilities?

Patients to assist insurer, association in creating program to ensure its relevancy and practicality for those with diabetes.

A large chunk of what insurers spend can be saved by improving medication adherence through medication therapy management done right.

Here are three ways to help your organization improve the patient experience through better communication between healthcare staff and patients.

If most patients are not going to exceed their deductible in a given year, they are now “consumers” and are looking for differentiators that offer fixed fee care.

Here are six steps experts say are necessary for success as an accountable care organization (ACO).

Rather than reducing unnecessary, preventable emergency department visits, some healthcare experts say the Affordable Care Act has actually caused them to increase.

Insurers have raised concerns about the regulation and approval process of medical devices in the wake of a recent advisory notice issued by the FDA on the risks of laparoscopic power morcellators.

More than 750 government and private ACOs are now in place, helping healthcare transition away from fee-for-service. Find out what's working and what's planned for the future.

As the number of people with diabetes in the U.S. continues to climb, plans and integrated health systems are employing personalized strategies to help manage the disease.