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The U.S. healthcare system has long been laden with growing inefficiencies, heightened costs and increasing complexities, all of which have stymied industry progress, according to a new Institute of Medicine (IOM) report.
The number of Medicare Advantage plans being offered is expected to increase by 7 percent over the next year, from 2,430 currently to 2,600 in 2013, according to a report from Avalere Health.
The American Medical Group Association (AMGA) announced Thursday its definition of high-performing health systems. Leaders of the trade association said they issued the definition to educate legislators and the public about the need for meaningful change to improve patient care.
That the healthcare industry is broken and needs to be fixed is a message the general public has been hearing for years. The urgency of the country's healthcare situation has so far largely failed to penetrate, but several new documentaries may change that, and that's something those in the business of healthcare need to pay attention to.
The global market for infertility drugs and devices will reach nearly $4.8 billion in 2017, said a recent report from Transparency Market Research.
The number of Medicare Advantage plans being offered is expected to increase next year, along with enrollment, which is a recipe for growth, according to an Avalere Health report.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has discovered errors in its initial calculations in August. As a result, 1,422 hospitals with comparatively high readmission rates will lose slightly more money than they were expecting, according to a Kaiser Health News analysis of the revised penalties. Fifty-five hospitals will lose less than were previously told.
Blue Shield of California and health technology integrator NantHealth announced Tuesday they will co-develop a clinic-based "continuous learning center" (CLC) that will leverage supercomputing systems, high-speed, secure-fiber networks and fact-based genomic data systems, which will allow Blue Shield's ACO partners to provide personalized, molecular-based medicine.
The Massachusetts Medical Society released Tuesday the results of its annual study of the state's physician workforce. Physician shortages, difficulty with recruiting and dissatisfaction with the working environment ranked among the chief concerns identified in the study.
Minnesota gets more grant money, 70 HIX questions from state lawmaker; Nebraska and Hawaii choose minimum benefit levels; and private exchanges on the rise in this week's HIX Digest.