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 […]
Jefferson Health in Philadelphia is reorganizing, in a move that reportedly includes layoffs. Jefferson Health is modifying its operating structure from five divisions to three “regions” – North, Central and East, according to a hospital spokesperson. The move is being made to further enhance the health system’s clinical integration, he said.
Rita Bowen, MRO vice president and board member for the Sequoia Project, discusses the need to harmonize HIPAA with interoperability, third-party compliance and the privacy of very personal data.
Healthy.io, a health technology company focused on at-home urinalysis and digitized wound care services, has partnered with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Idaho to promote early detection of kidney damage and chronic kidney disease (CKD) by essentially transforming people’s smartphones into medical devices.
In a bid to improve nursing home transparency, safety and quality and accountability, the White House has announced new actions to reduce the inappropriate use of antipsychotic medications and to bring greater transparency about nursing home citations to families.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services outlined changes that will be made to speed up and align the prior authorization process across all payers, during a press call on Tuesday.
To advance its goal of having 100% of people in traditional Medicare in an accountable care relationship in seven years, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has announced three initiatives in the Medicare Shared Savings Program and the ACO REACH and Kidney Care Choices models.