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Industry Analysis
The Rising Trend of Consumer Choice and What Members Want More Out of Their Plans
February 24, 2022
Most Health plans and much of healthcare, overall, have had their feet on the gas when it comes to more patient-centered care or consumer choice services. COVID-19 has clearly made it all about the consumer in many ways, but more specifically, in making care much more accessible.
Hospitals Aren’t Investing Enough in the Supply Chain and They’re Paying the Price
February 21, 2022
A look at the challenges hospitals face due to an insufficient supply chain—and how to address them.
Nurses Are Healthcare’s Frontlines. Now They Are Also Its Inventors.
February 16, 2022
Main Line Health in suburban Philadelphia has solicited ideas for inventions from nurses. Barbara Wadsworth, the healthcare system’s chief operating officer with 35 years experience as a nurse, has invented a device for cushioning patient falls in the bathroom.
How to Tame Increasing Healthcare Costs and Deal With Staffing Shortfalls
February 16, 2022
Hiring assistants that work virtually and outsourcing medical coding are two ways that providers can navigate through these times of increasing cost pressures and staffing shortages.
Medicare’s Independence at Home Program Posts Disappointing Results
February 14, 2022
In the sixth year of Medicare’s Independence at Home Demonstration program, the initiative saved $41 per member per month, an amount that CMS says was not statistically significant and was lower than the savings the program produced in earlier years.
Johns Hopkins Program Saves Money
February 14, 2022
The Community Aging in Place—Advancing Better Living for Elders (CAPABLE) program developed at the university’s nursing school is designed to keep older people who are frail, have chronic medical conditions or can’t complete activities of daily living in their homes by providing care and help from conventional healthcare professionals — nurses, occupational therapists — but also from people who can do minor house repairs.
There’s no Place like Home. That is also true for Healthcare.
February 14, 2022
Keeping older people in their homes has cost and care advantages. Yet Medicare and Medicaid are still geared toward paying for care in institutionalized settings.
SPACs in Healthcare: The Hot Ticket has Cooled off
February 07, 2022
Special purpose acquisition companies took off as investment vehicles in healthcare. Increased regulatory oversight and some flagging stock prices may cool off the trend.
Behavioral Health Needs are Increasing. Medicaid Programs are Trying to Keep up.
February 04, 2022
A Kaiser Family Foundation survey found that all the responding programs had at least one initiative to expand behavioral health services.
Health Plans, Insurance Issuers Are Failing to Deliver Full Access for Mental Health and Substance-use Disorder Benefits
January 26, 2022
A 2022 report by the Department of Labor cites specific examples of health plans and health insurance issuers failing to ensure parity. For instance, a health insurance issuer covered nutritional counseling for medical conditions like diabetes, but not for mental health conditions such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge-eating disorder.