Capital Finance
As mobile health gains ground as a way to improve population health and curb healthcare costs, models for making mHealth financially sustainable are topmost in the minds of stakeholders in the U.S. and across the globe.
The merger and acquisition market for traditional Medicare home care businesses has stalled but the hospice segment is still hot, said a panel of home care and hospice investment experts during a webinar last week.
With no federal rules telling providers how they can spend their meaningful use incentive checks, hospitals and practices have their options wide open. While many are investing in more technology, that's only the tip of the proverbial iceberg.
According to a recent study published in the American Journal of Managed Care (AJMC), researchers from America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) found that from 2008 to 2010 inpatient hospital prices increased by 8.2 percent each year with a wide variation in price levels and growth rates from state to state.
Cancer drug shortages are forcing treatment changes and delays that for some patients have led to worse outcomes, more therapy-related complications and higher costs, according to a national survey of health professionals published Thursday.
When Premier healthcare alliance officials announced this week that their data-sharing collaborative saved 92,000 lives and $9.1 billion since 2008, the emphasis was on the data, but in a briefing Wednesday about the private sector's role in Medicare Susan DeVore, Premier president and CEO, explained that one of major drivers behind the collaborative's success was the culture change that took place among the healthcare providers.
High numbers of merger and acquisition deals but lower volume in the senior housing and care industry is a trend that will continue in 2013, a panel of senior housing experts said during a webcast held in late February.
William G. Sutton, CAE, President and CEO of the Equipment Leasing and Finance Association (ELFA), presents the Top 10 Equipment Acquisition Trends for 2013. ELFA represents the $725 billion equipment finance sector and current trends indicate that economic conditions and fiscal policies will impact equipment investment decisions for many businesses.
According to a new research study published in the March issue of Health Affairs, hospice enrollment saves money for Medicare and improves care quality for Medicare beneficiaries with a number of different lengths of services.
The 333 hospitals taking part in Premier healthcare alliance's QUEST collaborative saved 92,000 lives and $9.1 billion over four-and-a-half years, Premier announced on March 19, and if the practices employed in the collaborative were replicated nationwide, Premier officials say, hospitals potentially could save 950,000 lives and approximately $93 billion.