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According to a recent study published in the American Journal of Managed Care (AJMC), researchers from America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) found that from 2008 to 2010 inpatient hospital prices increased by 8.2 percent each year with a wide variation in price levels and growth rates from state to state.
The payment of higher Medicare rates to physicians and hospitals in regions that have good health outcomes and lower costs, while reducing payment rates where there is lesser quality and higher costs will not drive individual providers to deliver care more efficiently reports the Institute of Medicine (IOM).
Healthcare is part of the service industry and increased competition amongst providers should lead to cost stabilization and advancements in healthcare services. Unfortunately, multiple barriers limit the healthcare industry from behaving like other service industries.
New research from the Urban Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation shows that hospitals can expect to pull in an additional $293.9 billion dollars between 2013 and 2022 if all states opt to expand Medicaid as outlined in the Affordable Care Act.
As healthcare organizations try to make hay with big data, venturing into new areas such as predictive analytics and data discovery, they're ramping up their investments in analytics and business intelligence tools, according to a new survey from Lavastorm Analytics.
Celebrating its third anniversary this weekend, the Affordable Care Act has shown demonstrable benefits, but those are no guarantee of overall success.
Cancer drug shortages are forcing treatment changes and delays that for some patients have led to worse outcomes, more therapy-related complications and higher costs, according to a national survey of health professionals published Thursday.
The Department of Health and Human Services has to fill some gaps in improper payment reduction and reporting compliance, according to the agency's Office of the Inspector General (OIG).
One example of the dilemmas posed by the rise of personalized medicine is Alzheimer's Disease: the ApoE genetic test can predict early onset of it, but there's still no effective therapy to stop dementia.
A report released in February found that state scope of practice laws and payment policies are two of the biggest challenges to expanding care provided by nurse practitioners.