Former CMMI Director Patrick Conway to be CEO of both, in a non-merger to align investments and eliminate redundant costs.
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Physicians for Fair Coverage proposes ban on surprise medical bills for out-of- network care, creation of reimbursement standards
Proposal creates a national protocol for alternative dispute resolution, which would prohibit surprise bills and establish reimbursement standards.
Interdisciplinary education helps hospital patients better understand their medications, could reduce readmissions
Readmissions dipped at a participating facility after implementing a new medication education program.
How the ‘A’ in ‘AI’ can stand for ‘Assistive,’ and what that means for providers and patients
As AI and machine learning become a bigger component of care delivery, maintaining the human touch will be vitally important.
See how hospitals did in CMS overall star ratings: List is below
Rankings show 5-and 1-star providers about equally divided as majority fall in the 2-to-4 star categories.
HIMSS19 Pharma Forum: Top takeaways from the inaugural event
The pharmaceutical industry’s biggest barrier? Data, of course.
While the price of healthcare is growing, utilization is dropping and price variations persist, report says
Report analyzed more than 1.8 billion commercial healthcare claims and data visualization to benchmark prices and use across 112 metropolitan areas from 2012 to 2016.
Gender-based salary gap persists among academic emergency medicine physicians
The authors said the reasons for salary disparities by gender are unclear, but may include the presence of conscious and unconscious biases.
Medicare X could cost hospitals $800 billion over 10 years and disrupt health insurance market, study says
The legislation, introduced in 2017, is grabbing attention as Democrats make Medicare for All a 2020 election issue, while other public options are being floated at the state level.
High healthcare use linked with lower prices, according to Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
The inverse is also true: Low usage is associated with higher prices, although there are outliers across the country.
