Healthcare currently ranks below the computing and electronics industry worldwide, but that’s likely to change over the next couple of years.
Category: Health Insurance
(UPDATED)Camp Fire in Northern California damages Adventist Health Feather River Hospital, patients evacuated
A trio of wildfires has devoured tens of thousands of acres in California, killing at least 29 people.
Healthcare cost variations between regions attributed to price, usage
Colorado has the highest prices in the six regions studied, while Maryland came in well below the average.
What Geisinger CEO David Feinberg accomplished before leaving for Google
Geisinger has appointed Dr. Jaewon Ryu as interim president and CEO of Geisinger, effective December 1.
Losing patients to other providers can cost some healthcare facilities up to 10 percent of their revenue
Most providers are tracking patient leakage in-house through their EHRs, but many aren’t fully satisfied with the results.
Leapfrog releases Fall 2018 safety grades showing medical errors, safety issues prevail in red and blue states
Of more than 2,600 hospitals graded, a total of 32 percent earned A’s, 24 percent earned B’s, 37 scored C’s, 6 percent got D’s and just under 1 percent received an F.
How health insurance companies use AI to make consumers healthier
Insurers are using artificial intelligence and machine learning to review medical records, optimize care for people with chronic conditions, identify at-risk patients, set premium prices and more.
Trumpeted New Medicare Advantage Benefits Will Be Hard For Seniors To Find
Federal officials are hailing the introduction of services such as transportation to medical appointments, home-delivered meals and installation of wheelchair ramps as a way to keep beneficiaries healthy and avoid costly hospitalizations. But not many plans are offering the services in 2019.
Montana’s Legislature Could Decide Medicaid Expansion’s Fate
A ballot initiative to fund Medicaid expansion with a tobacco tax failed in Montana on Tuesday. The expansion will expire in the state in June 2019, unless the legislature finds another way to fund it.
Quorum Health’s net losses climb as company plans to sell at least 5 more hospitals
Quorum ended the first nine months of 2018 with a net loss of $179.5 million, compared to an $87.4 million net loss in the same period last year.
