News
Hospitals and medical practices across the country have continued to increase their privacy and security budgets over the past five years, said a new HIMSS survey released Wednesday. Officials, however, say the percentage of the budget dedicated to these issues is still cause for concern.
Family premium costs for employer-sponsored health insurance have risen 62 percent between 2003 and 2011, according to an analysis by the Commonwealth Fund.
A new report from the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions estimates that the total of all U.S. health-related expenditures in 2010 totaled $3.2 trillion or about 23 percent higher than reported in the National Health Expenditure Accounts (NHEA).
As the home care market becomes increasingly competitive, two worker-owned cooperative home care agencies get proactive by becoming the first home care companies in the country to be certified B Corporations.
The use of retail clinics for medical services is on the rise, according to a new survey from healthcare market research publisher Kalorama Information, which reports 21.3 percent of U.S. adults have visited a retail clinic, up from about 10 percent six years ago.
More than 350 healthcare, patient, veterans and business organizations on Tuesday urged Congressional leaders to reject any proposal to turn the Medicare Part D plan into one that resembles the rebates structure of Medicaid drug programs.
Consumer-directed health plans with high deductibles typically exempt recommended preventive care such as annual physicals or screening tests from the plan's deductible or require only a small copay as a way to ease financial barriers and encourage patients to seek care. However, many patients don't understand their plan benefits for preventative office care and tend to avoid visits altogether.
In a letter sent to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid last week, 18 Democratic senators and senators-elect requested a delay in the medical device tax, a 2.3 percent tax that is slated to go into effect on Jan. 1, 2013 as part of the Affordable Care Act.
United Health Foundation's 2012 America's Health Rankings revealed that while Americans are living longer, unhealthy behaviors and preventable illnesses threaten quality of life and add to healthcare costs.
In what's been billed as one of the first commercial accountable care programs in Florida, Naples, Fla.-based NCH Healthcare System will team up with the state's Blue Cross and Blue Shield Company to participate in the Florida Blue Accountable Care Program.