Hospitals are looking to cut expenses in the midst of financial pressure from inflation, workforce costs and other challenges to already thin margins. LogicSource CEO and founder David Pennino and Healthcare Managing Partner Brian White, who work with health system executives, say they often see hospitals spending more on non-medical items than other businesses do.
The California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) has joined with five commercial managed care plans (MCPs) in an agreement to deliver Medi-Cal services to Medi-Cal managed care members in 21 counties across the state starting in January 2024. The MCPs include Blue Cross of California Partnership Plan, Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan, […]
Of all of the factors that determine whether a person chooses to obtain health insurance, the single biggest factor is cost, according to a new survey commissioned by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida.
The Food and Drug Administration has rejected two petitions on the use of the abortion pill mifepristone.
Baptist Health is keeping up with Jacksonville’s boom with digital strategies centered on patient delight and security, according to Melanie Husk, SVP and chief consumer officer, and Aaron Miri, SVP and CDIO.
Congress has passed an omnibus appropriations bill. How does this affect telehealth? We’ll start the year off right by answering that and other questions in this week’s Top Stories, such as: How close is Amazon to sealing the One Medical deal? And is there a correlation between consumer ratings and privacy scores? For more news […]
Hospitals struggled with their margins in 2022, and even though those margins improved during the month of November, they remained negative for the first 11 months of the year, according to data published in Kaufman Hall’s latest flash report.
In the midst of physician concerns that Part B drug reimbursements are too low, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) is suggesting the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services guide drugmakers in calculating the best prices for those drugs.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released new guidance for states to address health-related social needs for Medicaid beneficiaries. This is being done through the use of “in lieu of services and settings” in Medicaid managed care.
Apollo Hospitals CIO Arvind Sivaramakrishnan explains that the scale of the system is no barrier to digital maturity. All of its teams worked together to achieve triple Stage 6 HIMSS Digital Maturity Model validations.