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No Time to Wait: How to Flatten the COVID-19 Curve FasterTriage via text messaging can help providers reach patients in a shorter amount of time, the author says.
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Virtual Health Coach Finds Chain Restaurant Salads Can Top Burgers in CaloriesIf you choose salads because they're healthy, check those calories. The virtual health coach Noom Coach reports that toppings like fried chicken and fatty dressings can push calorie counts of some popular salads past those of signature burgers.
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When Employee Healthcare Costs Move StocksHealthcare costs in America are seeping into nonhealthcare companies’ earnings announcements. None of those companies discussed healthcare this time last year.
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Waking Up to the Opportunity of Self-Funded Employee Health BenefitsSelf-funded employee health benefits are becoming increasingly prevalent as employers seek ways to reduce healthcare expenses, increase plan flexibility, manage risk, and tailor plans to what their workers really want and need.
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Diabetes Shouldn't Cost Patients Their LegsHeart disease and kidney disease are widely known comorbidities of diabetes, but a lesser-known complication that dramatically effects between 10 million and 20 million American adults is peripheral arterial disease (PAD). In its most extreme form, PAD can lead to limb loss.
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Proposed Rule for Medicare ACOs Includes Notable Changes for Rural ProvidersCMS’ proposed rule described strong financial results from low-revenue ACOs, as well as ACOs in risk-bearing tracks, but it mostly ignored the success of small, rural providers in ACOs.
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Medical Technology Use Spurs New C-Suite Titles, Which Bring Opportunity and RiskThe C-suite of the healthcare industry has grown dramatically over the last several years, and has been spurred by legislation that ties reimbursement rates under Medicare and Medicaid to the use of technology in medicine.
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Humana CEO Says Health Care Will Never Be the Same, Here's Why He's RightRita E. Numerof, PhD, is the president of Numerof & Associates, a firm that helps businesses across the healthcare sector define and implement strategies for winning in dynamic markets. For more than 25 years, she has helped executives understand the implications of an evolving healthcare market. Working with leaders in the healthcare space, she has consulted with everyone from top academic and community hospital systems, payers, and Fortune 500 pharmaceutical, device, and diagnostics companies. She is the coauthor of several books, most recently, "Bringing Value to Healthcare: Practical Steps for Getting to a Market-Based Model" (2016).
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How Does a PCI-Validated P2PE Solution Benefit Providers and Payers?Last month, the healthcare payment network InstaMed announced that it was the first in the industry to achieve point-to-point encryption (P2PE) v2.0 validation. How important is this level of encryption for healthcare? What will this mean for those who seek better protection of their payment card data?
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Strong Referral Network Integrity Requires Continuum-Wide Communication and Data SharingMissed referrals and other appointments, often due to a lack of coordination and follow-up, have far-reaching impacts beyond lost revenue. Avoiding such consequences requires a strong referral network management plan.
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Effective Management of COPD in Primary Care: Challenges and OpportunitiesBy meeting challenges in caring for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary dieases head-on, primary care doctors have an opportunity to reduce the potential for unnecessary or sub-optimal care while improving patient outcomes.
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How Effective Hospital Pharmacy Operations Can Diminish Surprise Billing for PatientsNearly 28.5 million Americans are uninsured or underinsured, leaving them at risk for medical costs they may not be able to afford. Surprise billing is particularly problematic for acute, or emergency cases.
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Don't Delay Cancer Care During COVID-19 CrisisFederal and state officials have implemented policies and safeguards to slow transmission of the virus. Most troubling were state moratoriums on “elective” surgical procedures.
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Preventing Costly Bone Fractures - Why Don't We Do What Works?The cost and care implications of osteoporosis are expected to grow substantially as the baby boomers age. A study published this year found the total annual cost of providing care for osteoporotic fractures among Medicare beneficiaries, including direct medical costs as well as indirect societal costs related to productivity losses and informal caregiving, would rise from $57 billion in 2018 to $95 billion in 2040 unless strategies are implemented to prevent fractures.
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Medication Adherence and Readmission After Myocardial Infarction in the Medicare PopulationBetter outpatient medication adherence reduces the likelihood of readmission after a recent myocardial infarction.
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ACA Poll Shows Cancer Patient Attitudes Toward Healthcare LawA poll conducted by PatientsLikeMe shows that cancer patients have the same concerns as the general population about healthcare costs, but see benefits in the law that the healthy may have overlooked.
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Using AI to Amplify Care for Patients With Chronic DiseaseA critical obstacle to chronic disease management is that the patients most likely to benefit from primary care aren’t necessarily the patients who see their providers. Digital health helps providers support patients outside the traditional 4 walls of the doctor’s office.
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A Simple Program That Can Help Save Lives and MoneyCDC has created Prevent2 to help employers find those employees most at risk of diabetes.
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The Deadly Costs of InsulinIn an era when healthcare is extremely expensive, there are many opinions on how involved our federal government should be in bringing drug prices down. However, there is one particular drug-pricing crisis that many can agree needs to be addressed sooner rather than later: the insulin crisis.
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Are We Finally Ready to Rethink Prescription Drug Pricing?It's time to finally put an end to “what the market will bear” as a method of pricing prescription drugs.
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Coming Changes to Medigap PlansChanges to Medigap as part of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act go into action beginning next year.
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Inculcating the Patient Voice in the Development of Value ModelsTo have true utility, value models to assess the worthiness of treatments must have robust processes in place to incorporate the patient voice.
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Oncologists Are Crucial to Advancing Precision MedicineWith the dramatic shift toward precision medicine in cancer care, health systems, pharmaceutical companies and technology companies should ensure that the oncologist is at the center of their strategy.
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Improving Patient Outcomes: The Value of an Integrated ApproachOnly 20% of a person’s health can be attributed to healthcare. What happens outside the hospital and clinic doors is far more important in determining how healthy a person or population will be.
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Navigating BPCI-A Is a Time to Be BoldTaking a bold step into the world of bundled payment models can help an organization transform itself, but it could fail.
