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With the increasing costs of a growing Medicare population and of an American population that is living longer but with more chronic disease, the U.S. healthcare system needs to utilize better care coordination and payment reform to keep costs down, according to a report from the American Hospital Association (AHA).
As lawmakers debate the ingredients of a deal to avoid the fiscal cliff, a long-term care membership organization offers a recipe for post-acute system reform that can be adapted for all sectors of healthcare.
Two of Atlanta's largest hospital systems are forming their own insurance company, with plans to sell Medicare Advantage, commercial and self-funded health plans in 2014.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has awarded $306 million to 23 states for streamlining CHIP application processes and increasing enrollment and retention, as part of the five year performance bonus program started in 2009.
The market for point-of-care (POC) testing products -- such as pregnancy tests and glucose monitoring devices -- is currently growing at a rate of 6 percent per year, said a new report from healthcare market research publisher Kalorama Information.
According to a new research report, healthcare IT spending among state and local governments is projected to grow by $2.7 billion through 2017.
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) announced it was granting $40.7 million over three years to fund patient-centered comparative effectiveness research in the first four areas of its National Priorities for Research and Research Agenda.
Fueled by the needs of the Affordable Care Act, healthcare IT spending among state and local governments is projected to grow by $2.7 billion through 2017, according to a new report.
Many safety-net hospitals that treat a higher number of lower-income patients than other hospitals are worried that the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) will have a disproportionate impact on their reimbursements due to their traditionally higher readmission rates. A new Commonwealth Fund analysis confirms those fears.
Based on 2011 data analyzed by the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA), total operating costs per full-time equivalent (FTE) physician rose a modest 1.27 percent since 2010. Hospital/IDS-owned multispecialty medical practices saw more of a cost jump over the same measurement period, MGMA reported, an increase of 6.45 percent.