Quality and Safety
If the states not expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act stay with their decision, those state governments will collectively spend $1 billion more on uncompensated care in 2016 than they would have had they expanded Medicaid, says a recent RAND Corporation study.
The adage of everything old becomes new again is proving true. Physician house calls are making a comeback and disrupting today's healthcare system.
Being located in the popular tourist destination of Charleston, S.C., Frederick Schaffer, MD, knows firsthand that it is never easy working with patients vacationing from out of town. He shared with Healthcare Finance News five tips for doctors working with summer vacationers.
Driven in no small part by the Affordable Care Act, the healthcare industry needs a solution that coordinates and unifies providers and payers across the entire care continuum. At least one clear answer to that challenge has emerged: Medicaid Health Homes.
From the financial pangs at the pointy ends of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to the frustrations and economic hardships courtesy of health information technology (HIT), a new physician outlook survey reveals the top challenges and concerns of physicians today.
One would think, given the title of the CMS press release, "Pioneer Accountable Care Organizations succeed in improving care, lowering costs," that the first year of the advanced ACO program was an across-the-board roaring success. But upon closer examination, the report card would appear to be rather checkered.
Tenet Healthcare's acquisition of Vanguard Health Systems could be bad news for some not-for-profit hospitals, particularly smaller ones, because it increases competition.
A year into the Pioneer ACOs program and participating organizations are already showing reductions in costs and improvements in care, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced Tuesday.
As nearly every industry in the country has struggled in the recent recession, healthcare has bucked the trend, continually adding jobs and helping to fuel the country's economic recovery.
The integrated care model has been touted as being able to deliver better care for patients and lower costs and improve efficiencies for the healthcare system but a recent study of the model in the United Kingdom by RAND Europe reports lukewarm results.