Hospitals & Providers

If you’re not asking the right questions, your healthcare organization could be missing out. Here are five questions every healthcare organization should be asking.

How one public trust healthcare system overhauled its overall compensation program and successfully transformed its financial operations.

A first-of-its kind study examined the association between using medication to treat OUD and mortality in patients who had a nonfatal opioid overdose.

FDA’s plan to evaluate gene therapies’ impact on surrogate end points is amping up concerns among payers. Here’s why

Trust in the healthcare sector is dropping, a warning sign to executives. Here’s four ways how to reclaim it.

From the frontlines of healthcare, Sarah Krevans, MBA, MPH, Sutter Health, offers AHIP attendees her ideas on healthcare transformation, future outlook, and consumer empowerment.

Trepidation by providers to take on more risk is threatening the road to value-based care.

Benefit cuts and increasing prices are creating medical debt and bankruptcies. Some consumers respond by avoiding healthcare or abandoning coverage. Their alternative? They don’t pay providers.

Joslin Diabetes Center researchers reveal startling study results linking decades of having type 1 diabetes and mental abilities.

A new Accenture study reveals how the aggressive adoption of artificial intelligence plays a greater role in healthcare decision making.

A new annual report from PwC as reveals how employers struggle to contain employee coverage costs.

Starting or strengthening a provider-led health plan leads to true integration, resulting in quality care.

A Quest Diagnostics study sheds light on Medicare patients with multiple chronic conditions and the top three care gaps.

A study of Medicaid and Medicare Advantage plan members shows that addressing social determinants of health is important not only to reduce health spending, but also to improve patient outcomes.

Treating patients with cancer is often challenging yet rewarding work. But caring for patients in an urban setting, where some patients don’t speak English and other patients aren’t fully insured and possibly facing significant financial challenges.

Here’s how community oncologists seize opportunities to improve the quality of care and create performance metrics.

Montefiore Medical Center in Bronx, New York, is participating in CMS’ oncology care model, a value-based payment arrangement. Find out what new group of staff members is helping it succeed.

Experts say Anthem’s acquisition of Aspire Health, the nation’s biggest non-hospice, community-based palliative care provider, continues the health insurer race to dominate this kind of health experience.

Major depression diagnoses have risen, according to a study of medical claims by the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association. Find out which populations suffer the most.

Two studies from the University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health has interesting findings about primary care among low-income patients enrolled in a Medicaid ACO.

The new Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 (to be in effect on January 2019) institute new reimbursement guidelines for biosimilars under the Medicare coverage gap discount program that remove disincentives for biosimilar uptake and level the playing field for the future market place.

Congress recently began hearings on proposals to combat opioid abuse. Our policy analyst weighs in.