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Commentary: Keck Medicine goes all-in on bundled payments
CEO Tom Jackiewicz explains why Keck Medicine of USC has embraced bundled payments and how the team approach to care works best for patients and providers.
Steady executive pay hikes eclipse cost-containment concerns
Total executive compensation rose 4.8% from 2017 to 2018, a slight slowdown from the past several years and a sign that rising scrutiny of executive pay might be having an impact.
Uncompensated-care audits coming in fall
The CMS’ payment formula in the first year places increased scrutiny on hospitals’ charity care and bad debt reporting, but the agency isn’t offering much detail on the audit process, which begins this fall.
Editorial: Paying for single-payer
Single-payer advocates need to articulate how their plan will be paid for. To generate broad-based political support, they will need to show that provider rates will be adequate; that insurers can have a role in the system; and that the public’s…
Week Ahead: Will the 2020 Census include a citizenship question?
Investors and journalists will be waiting to see if Tenet Healthcare will shed any more light on plans to sell off assets, Cardinal Health will report both its fourth-quarter and year-end results for fiscal 2018 and comments are due on proposed…
Q&A with CEO Barry Ostrowsky on RWJBarnabas’ $1 billion academic center investment, population health
Almost one year to the day after they signed a letter of intent to forge a partnership, RWJBarnabas Health and Rutgers University launched a new academic and research health system.
Data Points: Fast-growing job categories in healthcare come with varied salaries
Healthcare managers, physicians and nurses seem to get all the attention regarding job growth and salaries, but there’s a whole bunch of occupations with varying degrees of expected growth and salaries.
Dartmouth suspends policy researcher Dr. Elliott Fisher
Renowned health policy researcher Dr. Elliott Fisher has been placed on paid administrative leave from his position as director of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice pending an investigation into his workplace conduct.
Social determinants are core of North Carolina’s Medicaid overhaul
North Carolina is transforming its Medicaid program to focus on patients’ social determinants as the main drivers of health outcomes, according to Dr. Mandy Cohen, secretary of the North Carolina Health and Human Services Department.
Kaiser sees 47% drop in Q2 operating income
Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente saw a 47% drop in operating income during the second quarter of 2018 compared with the prior-year period, despite reporting higher revenue during the quarter.
