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A study published in a recent issue of Medical Care found that increased nurse-to-patient staffing ratios and good work environments for nurses were tied to lower 30-day readmission rates for Medicare patients suffering from heart failure, myocardial infarction and pneumonia.
With the insurance and healthcare landscape in this country changing on almost a monthly basis, payer software vendor HealthEdge has begun conducting regular surveys of insurers as a means to take the pulse of a market at any given time. The surveys, conducted currently at six-month intervals provide a snapshot of the industry.
The Illinois exchange wants to offer in-person consumer assistance in addition to federal navigators, as part of the partnership exchange. Covered California is pretty much covered financially until 2015 with federal grants. And as Wal-Mart expands into healthcare, HHS has rebranded exchanges as "marketplaces."
The global healthcare contract research outsourcing market is increasing at a compounded annual growth rate of 14.7 percent and is expected to be valued at $65.03 billion by 2018, according to a new report from market research firm Transparency Market Research.
Venture capital in the mHealth sector reached $907.7 million last year, said a report released Tuesday by Mobile Health Market News.
As Aetna finalizes the acquisition of the managed care insurer Coventry, it is selling one of its own Medicaid businesses, Missouri Care, to WellCare Health Plans, for an undisclosed sum.
Last week the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it will not challenge a proposal by the Greater New York Hospital Association (GNYHA) to offer a gainsharing program to its member hospitals in the state.
Becoming a behavioral health home is a real opportunity but comes with some challenges. A webinar offered by SAMHSA/HRSA outlined some operational considerations for behavioral health agencies thinking about making the transformation.
If hospitals launching health plans strikes some as a sign of traditional health insurance's coming extinction, the business model so many American hospitals were built upon -- fee-for-service -- is declining too. Integrated healthcare and shared savings contracts between payers and providers are going to become the norm.
The HIPAA Privacy and Security Omnibus final rule should bring some long-awaited clarification and certainty to marketing, fundraising and other aspects of safeguarding and using health information.