The retail giant has proven it can use data to drive down costs. Is your hospital ready to compete against that?
Category: Health Insurance
Hospitals Battle For Control Over Fast-Growing Heart-Valve Procedure
Medicare limits payments for valve replacement via a catheter to hospitals with large numbers of heart procedures. But smaller facilities are crying foul.
Drug makers set prices independent of rebates, AHIP says
Competition drives drug prices and results in higher rebates, insurance organization says.
Emergency medical technicians, paramedics more likely to see raises than other healthcare jobs
The 2016 median salary for EMTs and paramedics was $40,508, but in 2017 that figure leapt to $51,168, a 26.32 percent jump.
Optum secures a piece of $50 billion government IT contract
OptumRx is changing its medication containers for temperature-sensitive prescriptions for home delivery to renewable cotton that is biodegradable, compostable, reusable and recyclable.
Community health centers get $125 million in federal grants
HRSA is distributing the funds to help boost the use of technology to improve efficiencies and outcomes among small hospitals.
Podcast: KHN’s ‘What The Health?’ See You In Court!
In this episode of KHN’s “What the Health?” Julie Rovner of Kaiser Health News, Alice Ollstein of Talking Points Memo, Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times and Kimberly Leonard of the Washington Examiner talk about a spate of lawsuits involving the Affordable Care Act, as well as the latest in state and federal efforts regarding the Medicaid program for the poor.
Test kicks off to help consumers pick a health system during open enrollment
If consumer choice can be leveraged correctly, it forces physicians, hospitals and health systems to maintain a consistent level of care.
A physician contemplates Medicare blended rates
I am a terrible coder. I think I am a pretty good doctor, but when it comes to coding, the process of figuring out which billing code to pick to assign to a bill for an office visit, I am hopeless. No matter how many times I have had the rules explained to me, or […]
Hospitals rank technology optimization as their biggest IT demand
Healthcare industry management consulting has grown from a $20 billion industry in 2016 to over $45 billion in 2017, with projections topping $53 billion in 2018, says Black Book.
