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Areas in which a few health insurers are concentrated can put independent physicians or small practices at a disadvantage because they don't have the muscle to negotiate from a strong position with the dominant payers, the American Medical Association said in a report.
One of the most difficult goals of health reform is price transparency -- and one of the biggest uncertainties is whether more transparency will necessarily lead to higher value.
More throughput for ERs means more dollars for a hospital's bottom line.
Now that the health insurance exchanges and other parts of the Affordable Care Act are being rolled out, providers, payers and other organizations are eyeing what it will take to keep making progress in 2014 and beyond around health reform.
Gov. Dannel Malloy said the rollout of Obamacare in Connecticut has been a success -- but it would be a bigger success if the federal health marketplace weren't doing so badly.
Between 1980 and 2009, healthcare expenditures grew by 7.4 percent, which most economists agree would bankrupt the nation if continued.
Business pressures are forcing hospital CFOs to re-evaluate their revenue cycle management solutions, according to research done in 2013 by Black Book Rankings and HIMSS Analytics.
The role of the healthcare CFO is dramatically changing and expanding. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the position specifications that leading organizations are drafting as they search for their next financial leader.
ABIM has focused on credentialing and opening discussions about unnecessary care. How will you build on those and what future projects can you see yourself involved in through ABIM and the ABIM Foundation?
Nationwide, hospitals have been feeling the burden of Medicare penalties for avoidable 30-day readmissions.