Category: Healthcare Finance News

Self-funded employers are playing an increasing role in taking on the status quo to lower costs

The insurance industry will remain but the traditional PPO is beginning to come to an end as costs are outstripping inflation and wages, CEO says.

Wasteful spending is an increasingly thorny problem in healthcare, especially with the industry comprising an ever-larger portion of GDP.

In total, Affordable Care Act insurers in class action lawsuit will receive over $1.5 billion in damages from 2017 and 2018.

Mergers and acquisitions helped grow revenue but it’s taking health systems longer to realize expected synergies.

Optum calls the study’s conclusions “misleading” as health systems use many data elements other than cost to select patients for clinical engagement.

The five-year-old Illinois company offers digital health content middleware in the form of APIs used by Microsoft, MDLive and others.

Two JHS employees allegedly accessed patient information without a clear job-related purpose.

By law, patients own their own data, but access and understanding what’s in the record is not user friendly.

Hospitals should obtain more valuable data insights, set performance improvement goals and better engaging physicians, finds Kaufman Hall.

Prescription opioids are a major contributor to the opioid epidemic and are linked to prescription opioid abuse, addiction and overdose deaths.