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In the last few years, it's become increasingly important for healthcare organizations to create some sort of strategy that is focused on becoming a successful social business, according to Andrew Dixon, senior vice president of marketing and operations at Igloo Software.
Only 10.9 percent of payments to doctors and hospitals in the commercial sector in 2013 are linked to their performance or designed to cut waste, according to the National Scorecard on Payment Reform released by the Catalyst for Payment Reform (CPR), a non-profit group of employers and large healthcare purchasers that advocates for paying for value.
After a federal district judge temporarily blocked a Georgia prompt payment law applying to self-funded plans and third party administrators (TPAs), the American Medical Association (AMA) is challenging some of the pillars of federal preemption under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA).
The Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights (OCR) says it will survey the 115 HIPAA-covered entities that were audited last year to gain insight about their audit experiences.
With no federal rules telling providers how they can spend their meaningful use incentive checks, hospitals and practices have their options wide open. While many are investing in more technology, that's only the tip of the proverbial iceberg.
In the first year of new medical loss ratio (MLR) requirements, insurers spent less than 1 percent of premium revenue on rebates or quality improvements, according to an analysis by the Commonwealth Fund.
As the investigation into a fatal outbreak of fungal meningitis continues, the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration proposed Friday that the agency gain new authority to regulate pharmacy compounding, including charging fees to fund an expanded safety framework.
In the first year of new medical loss ratio (MLR) requirements, insurers spent less than 1 percent of premium revenue on rebates or quality improvements, according to an analysis by the Commonwealth Fund.
Medicaid pays for more than 62 percent of all long-term care (LTC) costs in this country so programs to encourage more people to carry long-term care insurance may be needed to lessen the burden to the federal insurance program to the poor.
Accountable care organizations might be today's hope for grappling with healthcare costs and bumping up quality, but according to one expert, they are doomed to fail without one key element.