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Encouraging patients to shop around amidst high healthcare prices
By offering incentives to patients, Vitals saves both them and their employers and health plans money.
Commentary: Healthcare needs empathetic workforce focused on ‘complex illness’
Empathy is not sympathy — it’s a teachable, measurable cognitive skill that allows a physician to answer the question, “What does this mean, doctor?” That’s the core question for physicians in the age of AI — we must be the…
Bold Moves: Ascension’s Anthony Tersigni navigates a reinvention
Ascension’s Anthony Tersigni has faced plenty of operational and financial challenges during his near 15-year tenure. But in 2014, the St. Louis-based system embarked upon an ambitious endeavor — complete rebranding of its 151 hospitals in six…
Successful marketers use data and people
Detailed measurement and nimbleness is crucial in today’s marketing environment, according to speakers at Modern Healthcare’s Strategic Marketing Conference.
Rules aim to meet dual CMS goals of saving money, doctor empowerment
The CMS finalized two payment rules last week that simultaneously sought to empower clinicians to spend more time with patients, while also paying them less for some services.
Week Ahead: Healthcare will play big in midterm elections
Polls leading into Tuesday’s midterm elections rank healthcare as one the top — if not the — top issue on voters’ minds, along side the economy and immigration.
Kaiser’s net income drops 32% in third quarter
New members, weak equity market prompt a drop in Kaiser’s profit to $884 million in the third quarter.
FDA OKs powerful opioid pill as alternative to IV painkiller
The Food and Drug Administration approved a fast-acting, super-potent opioid tablet as an alternative to IV painkillers used in hospitals. The decision came over objections that the pill could be abused.
Broward Health fires general counsel amid alleged compliance violations
The taxpayer-supported health system in South Florida continues to struggle after a series of state and federal investigations related to alleged kickbacks and open-government law violations. It hopes that Lynn Barrett’s departure will right the…
Senate Dems call for tighter nursing home regulations after hurricanes
Senate Finance Committee Democrats warned that nursing homes could experience patient deaths and late evacuations in hurricanes if the CMS doesn’t tighten SNF regulations.
