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A new report examining the state of the skilled nursing industry finds that there have been steady quality improvements since 2003 but more can be done.
Colorado HealthOP, the state's consumer operated and oriented plan (CO-OP), has signed an agreement with the broker network Warner Pacific to market its health plans, in the first relationship between agents and state health cooperatives.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is looking to more than a dozen dual eligible demonstrations to fulfill the quality improvement and cost saving aims of the Affordable Care Act, although in the five demonstrations approved so far, the exact sources of projected savings remain largely unclear, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.
That sigh of relief you heard Monday was from hospital administrators in nearly two dozen states, including Florida and Texas.
There is plenty of disagreement regarding the ROI of workplace wellness programs, but some evidence suggests the savings are there in the long run.
Community Health Systems, based in Franklin, Tenn., recently announced that their net operating revenues for the first three months of 2013 increased despite a drop in admissions.
Even as studies from the Obesity journal to the Journal of Applied Physiology have shown that sitting is bad for your health, many employers -- even healthcare-related ones -- balk at the costs of non-traditional office furniture like treadmill desks.
Spending on U.S. medicines fell 3.5 percent on a real per capita basis in 2012, driven in large part by greater availability of generics and lower price increases. In addition, the use of healthcare services overall declined for the second consecutive year, according to a study released last Thursday by the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics.
As hospital construction has held steady during the downturn, more administrators and healthcare leaders are weighing the benefits of patient-centered design.
The number of health plans that expect more than half their business will be under value-based models is expected to triple in the next five years according to a new research report released last week by health information network Availity.