Association calls on healthcare to more effectively share date and give clinicians the tools they need to improve care.
Category: Health Insurance
EHRs make it harder for surgeons to spend time with patients, study finds
Even after an initial learning period, which typically takes about eight months, introducing a new EHR system may affect several aspects of clinic workflow.
Few health insurance plans rank highest or lowest in NCQA’s plan ratings
NCQA uses HEDIS scores to rate plans, a performance measure used by more than 90 percent of health insurers.
Fatigue, scheduling, data all contributors to pervasive physician burnout epidemic
They’re having to interact with an EHR and are doing a lot more to advise and correct the system so they can get paid properly, as opposed to connecting with and empathizing with the patient.
Accountable care organizations: Time to make risk-adjustment more stable
In two separate moves on one day, ACO stakeholders ask CMS to keep upside-only risk model, while 29 others from Next Gen ACO Coalition want to make risk more predictable.
Accountable care organizations: Time to make risk-adjustment more stable
In two separate moves on one day, ACO stakeholders ask CMS to keep upside-only risk model, while 29 others from Next Gen ACO Coalition want to make risk more predictable.
How providers can innovate to combat physician burnout
Increasingly, health leaders are recognizing the need to utilize one or more approaches to the multifaceted problem.
How providers can innovate to combat physician burnout
Increasingly, health leaders are recognizing the need to utilize one or more approaches to the multifaceted problem.
As States Try To Rein In Drug Spending, Feds Slap Down One Bold Medicaid Move
Medicaid drug spending doubled in five years in Massachusetts. The state wanted to exclude expensive drugs that weren’t proven to work better than existing alternatives from its Medicaid plan, but the federal government blocked the effort.
Social determinants are threatening patient outcomes, burnout is a scourge but opioid scripts are down, physicians say
Majority say social determinants pose major threat to patient health and burnout threatens three-quarters, but patient relationships are a major boost.
