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Physicians estimate the cost of defensive medicine to be between 26 and 34 percent of total annual healthcare costs, according to a recent report by Jackson Healthcare. At an estimated $2.5 trillion in annual spending, this means $650-850 billion is spent each year on medical orders intended to avoid lawsuits rather than treat patients.
Healthcare costs are in a constant state of expansion yet physicians do not understand how much the care they recommend costs and they are not getting the training they should have so that they will understand those costs and what they can do to responsibly contain them, said Steve Weinberger, MD, executive vice president and CEO of the American College of Physicians, in an opinion piece published in September in the ACP’s Annals of Internal Medicine.
The ad starts off pretty tamely, with an older woman sitting on the edge of examination table in a doctor’s office. Her doctor asks her if she has any questions. She says no.
Louisiana Health Care Quality Forum (LHCQF) and Orion Health, Inc. announced Friday the launch of LaHIE, Louisiana's statewide health information exchange.
Humana Inc., one of the largest managed care organizations in the country has named McKesson executive Bruce D. Broussard as president and announced a succession plan that would see Broussard ascend to CEO at the retirement of current Chairman and CEO Mike McCallister, expected in the next 12 to 18 months.
Siemens Healthcare announced Friday that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Yardley, Pa.-based MobileMD, Inc., a developer of health information exchange technology.
The Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) enables frail Medicare beneficiaries still in their homes to access medical and social services in the community.
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) wants to better align the payment system for the program that coordinates care for dual-eligibles – beneficiaries eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid with the Medicare Advantage payment system.
Wisconsin hospitals generate $28 billion in annual economic activity for the state, according to a study released Thursday by the University of Wisconsin-Cooperative Extension Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics and the Wisconsin Hospital Association (WHA).
North Shore–Long Island Jewish Health System has been awarded the most incentives – nearly $3.7 million – under a national pay-for-performance program, the system announced on Thursday.