Category: Modern Healthcare

CEO Tom Jackiewicz explains why Keck Medicine of USC has embraced bundled payments and how the team approach to care works best for patients and providers.

Total executive compensation rose 4.8% from 2017 to 2018, a slight slowdown from the past several years and a sign that rising scrutiny of executive pay might be having an impact.

As healthcare providers work to engage patients and identify mental health needs, they’re facing a new challenge: a shortage of mental healthcare professionals. So they’re turning to apps.

Virtual ICU care can improve access and boost quality for both patients and providers. It can also strengthen patient retention, especially in rural facilities.

Renowned health policy researcher Dr. Elliott Fisher has been placed on paid administrative leave from his position as director of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice pending an investigation into his workplace conduct.

North Carolina is transforming its Medicaid program to focus on patients’ social determinants as the main drivers of health outcomes, according to Dr. Mandy Cohen, secretary of the North Carolina Health and Human Services Department.

Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente saw a 47% drop in operating income during the second quarter of 2018 compared with the prior-year period, despite reporting higher revenue during the quarter.

Prime Healthcare and its founder/CEO, Dr. Prem Reddy, have agreed to pay $65 million to end a yearslong lawsuit alleging the hospital chain fraudulently billed Medicare by admitting patients when they should’ve been treated on observation status.

Providers worry that the CMS, in its push to give patients greater access to both price and care information, may do more harm than good.

Dr. Mary Bassett spent the last four years seeking to address the poor health outcomes that plague certain New York City neighborhoods and fought high-profile disease outbreaks.