Risk-based contracts let providers consider the whole individual, rather than focus on billing for services, according to Jaja Okigwe, First Choice Health CEO.

Hospital at home for acute care became one of the lifeline programs for health systems during COVID-19, for providers that had the capacity and resources to take advantage of public health emergency waiver.  Hospital at home programs for primary care are more rare and require a combination of factors to be successful for patients and […]

The mental health crisis in the U.S.

Almost 25% of inpatient admissions in 2018 experienced at least one adverse event while 7% experienced a preventable adverse event, according to new data published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The analysis, which looked at about 2,800 admissions across 11 hospitals, found 978 adverse events, many of them serious, and a small percentage […]