Just 31 percent of clinical leaders have a designated nursing leader whose primary responsibility is innovation.
Category: Health Insurance
Drug companies are being required to post list prices in TV ads
If pharmaceutical manufacturers are ashamed of their drug prices, then change the price, HHS Secretary Alex Azar says.
Reimbursement, regulation, resistance to change remain provider barriers to precision medicine
Precision medicine is a disruptive technology that is moving from revolution to evolution into mainstream adoption.
A Plan To Cover Immigrants Would Divert Public Health Dollars
California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposal to provide health coverage to unauthorized immigrants ages 19 to 25 would siphon money that four counties currently use for public health efforts such as battling contagious diseases.
A Plan To Cover Immigrants Would Divert Public Health Dollars
California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposal to provide health coverage to unauthorized immigrants ages 19 to 25 would siphon money that four counties currently use for public health efforts such as battling contagious diseases.
Practice owners are no longer the majority among physicians, AMA finds
The share of physicians with ownership stakes in a medical practice declined 6 percent, driven largely by younger physicians.
Beneficiaries Who Switch to Medicare Advantage Have Lower Medicare Spending and Use Fewer Services – In the Prior Year – Than Those Who Stay in Traditional Medicare
Medicare Advantage plans gain beneficiaries from traditional Medicare who have lower average spending and use fewer health services than similar beneficiaries who choose to remain in traditional Medicare, according to a new KFF analysis. The analysis f…
Do People Who Sign Up for Medicare Advantage Plans Have Lower Medicare Spending?
The analysis finds that people who switched from traditional Medicare to Medicare Advantage in 2016 had health spending in 2015 that was $1,253 less, on average, than the average spending for beneficiaries who remained in traditional Medicare (after ad…
Affordable Care Act premium rates projected to increase by 10 percent
An estimated 2 percent of the increase will be due to the return on the health insurance tax.
Patient input has potential to improve communication and the overall hospital experience
Physicians need to work at seeking feedback from patients and meaningfully incorporating patient preferences into treatment plans.
