Rankings show 5-and 1-star providers about equally divided as majority fall in the 2-to-4 star categories.
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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.
Urgent care centers grow in number, reach, thanks to comprehensive capabilities, convenience, millennial demand
The report showed more than 70 percent of patients wait less than 20 minutes to see a provider and it’s not just millennials fueling the demand.
HHS $87.1 billion budget includes funding to end opioid epidemic, HIV
HHS Secretary Alex Azar announces appointments of two officials in wake of resignation of FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb.
Technology key to unlocking potential of healthcare industry’s shift toward consumerism
The healthcare industry should be looking at what some of the tech giants are doing to determine how to move forward.
Capital Regional Medical Center hit with $1.1 million verdict after hospital visitor slips, falls on wet floor
According to law firm representing victim, $1.1 million award is compensation for the "permanent and severe injuries" she suffered after falling on wet floor.
