Jeff Lagasse

Providers now spend eight minutes on average, and up to 30 minutes on manual tasks like making phone calls, sending faxes and mailing correspondence.

CEO Therese Pandl said the decision was in response to high-deductible plans causing many patients to postpone their care, and technology that allows more people to receive care in an outpatient setting.

Higher proportion of minority patients was associated with worse scores on 25 of 33 Medicare quality performance measures.

Business Dynamics focuses on streamlining coding, billing reimbursement for spine specialists.

Health Affairs report suggests these hospitals discharged to skilled nursing facilities more effectively or did a better job at targeting at-risk patients.

Authors estimated that insurers with market shares of 15 percent or more negotiated prices for office visits that were 21 percent lower.

For every $100,000 that a hospital spent on safety programs, it realized an average $315,000 savings thanks to fewer infected patients, investigators found.

Summa Health System abruptly terminated contract with Summa Emergency Associates, a separate, independent physician group, causing turmoil.

Snowball effect would mean a cumulative $1.5 trillion loss in gross state products, $2.6 million reduction in business output from 2019 to 2023.

Company says acquisition will enhance services for volume to value transition, increase ability to predict, manage reimbursement.