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Lee Aase, director of the Center for Social Media at Mayo Clinic, talked to Healthcare Finance News to share his keys to a successful social media marketing plan.
A report from Premier healthcare alliance has found that commercial payers do not offer as many of the upside-only payment arrangements for shared savings that are popular among early accountable care organizations (ACOs) as public payers do.
Contrary to conventional thinking, retail clinics are being used more by people with higher incomes than those with lower incomes finds a recent study by Kalorama Information.
Not-for-profit hospitals are feeling the pinch as their pension plans take a bigger bite out of their budget. The culprit, according to a recent Standard and Poor's report, is low discount rates, which have eroded the funding status of defined benefit (DB) plans in 2012.
Aetna will include The Leapfrog Group's Hospital Safety Scores in its DocFind online hospital directory to help patients make better decisions about their care.
Noel Khirsukhani, vice president of business development at PatientPoint, recently spoke to Healthcare Finance News and offered his tips on forming a successful ACO.
A federal court has struck down a California "carve in" law requiring Medicaid safety net providers to only dispense drugs purchased at a discount, although the ruling also implied that type of mandate would be permissible with federal approval.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) announced Tuesday a competition to improve consumer understanding and use of data comparing hospital prices but the results could also be of use to hospitals.
The National Women's Law Center (NWLC) has filed federal discrimination complaints against five large employers, arguing that their exclusion of pregnancy coverage in health benefits for dependent children violates the Affordable Care Act's nondiscrimination provisions.
Adding more mixed evidence to the Medicaid expansion debate, health researchers found that extending coverage to low-income, childless adults in Wisconsin corresponded with a decrease in preventable hospitalizations but also increases in outpatient and emergency department visits.