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All-payer claims databases: a work in progress
Although 16 states have all-payer claims databases, there’s no evidence they have helped lower healthcare costs. Advocates say the databases should empower lawmakers and consumers by providing reliable data.
Q&A with Heritage Provider Network’s Dr. Richard Merkin on healthcare innovation
Heritage Provider Network founder and CEO Dr. Richard Merkin says his goal is to continually push the envelope and try things that haven’t been done before.
Hospitals face Hurricane Florence head on
North Carolina hospitals hunkered down and waited for emergency patients to arrive after Hurricane Florence pummeled the coast near Wrightsville Beach on Friday morning.
FDA hopes new payment models would spark antibiotic drug development
The Food and Drug administration is considering a new payment model aimed at encouraging drugmakers to develop new antibiotics.
Healthcare groups sue to block Trump’s expansion of short-term plans
Seven healthcare industry and advocacy groups sued the Trump administration Friday to block the Trump administration’s new rule expanding…
Jefferson Health and Einstein Healthcare Network reach definitive agreement
Their union builds off an existing academic affiliation spanning two decades to create an 18-hospital system with about $5.9 billion in revenue. Their footprint would include more than 50 outpatient and urgent-care centers, leading rehabilitation…
As Hurricane Florence hits, health information exchanges fill in patient data gaps
Provider organizations can use health information exchange to pull information about patients who’ve left areas hit by the hurricane.
Commentary: Long-term acute-care hospitals vital to caring for complex patients
Long-term acute-care hospitals can provide high-quality healthcare and exceptional outcomes, according to Lou Little, president of the National Association of Long Term Hospitals. It is vitally important that their role be understood and continued.
Opioid use disorder cases triple government’s early estimates
Up to six million Americans could have opioid use disorder, nearly three times higher than government estimates, according to a new analysis.
Maryland suit seeks to protect U.S. health law from ‘sabotage’
Maryland’s attorney general has filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s administration for efforts he says are intended to undercut the nation’s healthcare law.
