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As healthcare reimbursement shifts from a system that rewards quantity of care to quality of care, the onus is on the CFO to determine where best to allocate financial resources and how best to pare them.
If post-acute care providers want to remain viable as businesses, they’re going to have to invest in technology.
The Obama Administration's latest delays and policy tweaks have credit rating analysts getting more worried about insurers, even as large companies like Aetna and Cigna insist that insurance exchanges are only minor parts of their business strategies.
Most uninsured Latinos are eligible for tax credits or Medicaid, but insurers may need to rethink their outreach approaches, and absent federal immigration reform, states may have to help fill gaps for those who are both uninsured and undocumented.
Between 20 years researching leukemia at Harvard and four years directing Merck's oncology program, Gary Gilliland, MD, has seen a lot of ups and even more downs. Now, as the head of precision medicine at Penn, he's fairly optimistic about emerging therapies like immunologics, but just as concerned about how to pay for them.
A newly released update to the landmark 2008 Nachimson study says two-thirds of practices would fall in the upper range of implementation cost projections.
Researchers have found that a value-based insurance design test increased medication adherence, but it failed to be cost neutral, suggesting that the business case for VBID may be more convincing over several years or with higher risk patients.
Young adults were a rising portion of those who signed up for coverage in January, accounting for 27 percent of enrollees compared to 24 percent in the previous three months, in the latest report on insurance exchange enrollment.
Optum Labs, the research center founded by UnitedHealth and Mayo Clinic, has added seven new health organizations, which will join in on data mining research to find innovative ways to improve quality and reduce costs.
Honolulu's Kuakini Medical Center was anticipating an enormous capital investment to upgrade its energy systems, when a golden opportunity came along.