Category: Healthcare Finance News

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Landmark Health collaborate to bring in-home medical care to complex patients

The providers are supported by a local multidisciplinary team including behavioral health clinicians, nurses, social workers and dietitians.

Diverting avoidable emergency department visits could save healthcare $32 billion annually

Primary care services rendered by hospital EDs come with substantially higher price tags than in primary care settings, data showed.

Use of non-hospital-based provider-to-patient telehealth grew nearly 1,400%

In 2018, non-hospital-based provider-to-patient telehealth accounted for 84 percent of all telehealth claim lines.

Critical heart drug too pricey for some Medicare patients

Even with insurance, the cost to Medicare patients may be more than $1,600 a year, which may prohibit some from even taking the drug at all.

Nurses may not have adequate instruction on how to respond to a catastrophe

Events that are less likely to occur, but have greater impact when they do, usually receive fewer training hours.

Vast majority of physicians want to be more involved in health system digital patient access initiatives

Providers recognize the importance of a modern, online consumer experience, but most want more control around related projects.

Private practice physicians less likely to maintain electronic records, study shows

Forty-nine percent of surveyed physicians who had remained independent since 2011 attested to meaningful use of EHRs.

Amazon contemplating lawsuit against Surescripts

Surescripts is seeking to cut off PillPack’s access to patient data, and the latter, an Amazon-owned company, isn’t taking the matter lightly.

How Medicare Advantage plans can begin closing coverage gaps through better communication

Personalized communications and robust analytics capabilities can help MA plans avoid some of the pitfalls of coverage gaps.

Court decision expected soon in CVS\Aetna merger

Judge Richard Leon says the merger potentially has ‘grave consequences for millions of people.’