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July 14, 2015 | Health Affairs Blog
A repeated refrain of politicians is that health care spending in the United States is utterly out of control. We spend almost $9,000 per person per year, amounting to nearly 17 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), far more than any...
July 14, 2015 | Fierce PracticeManagement
The pay gap between primary care physicians (PCP) and their specialist counterparts continues to close, thanks in part to the healthcare industry's shift toward value-based care, according to a new report from the Medical Group Management...
July 14, 2015 | HealthIT Analytics
In the first update to the Medicare physician fee schedule (PFS) since the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula was repealed in April, CMS has unveiled its proposed rule for implementing some of its major changes to the industry’s...
July 11, 2015 | New York Times
TACOMA, Wash. — One night, when her face turned puffy and painful from what she thought was a sinus infection, Jessica DeVisser briefly considered going to an urgent care clinic, but then decided to try something “kind of sci-fi.”
She sat...
July 10, 2015 | Medscape
The Centers for Medicare &Medicaid Services (CMS), in its physician fee proposal for 2016, seeks public input on several provisions of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA). This is the new law that replaces...
July 10, 2015
WASHINGTON — By the standards of the modern Congress, Representatives Fred Upton, Republican of Michigan, and Diana DeGette, Democrat of Colorado, have no business writing health care legislation together.
Mr. Upton, the buttoned-up...
July 9, 2015 | Kaiser Health News
Montana’s blueprint for expanding Medicaid on terms that are palatable to the fragile bipartisan legislative majority that passed an expansion law earlier this year has been released for public comment before it is formally submitted to...
July 9, 2015 | Forbes
When it comes to requiring healthcare prices to be made public, only five states adequately make the information transparent to consumers.
The third annual report from the Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute and Catalyst for...
July 8, 2015 | Medical Xpress
Patients who are treated by the same primary care doctor on a regular basis go to the emergency room and are hospitalized less frequently than those who bounce between multiple providers, according to new research by the UCLA Center for...
July 8, 2015 | Modern Healthcare
In a draft of Medicare's first physician payment rule since Congress scrapped the sustainable growth-rate formula, the CMS proposes paying for end-of-life counseling and revises several quality-incentive programs that will be rolled into a...
July 8, 2015 | AAFP News
“Today’s release of the proposed 2016 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule marks the beginning of health security for millions of elderly and disabled Americans who depend on Medicare. It’s the first time in more than a decade that federal law...
July 8, 2015 | News Medical
Convincing the nation's most vulnerable citizens to avoid costly emergency department visits is proving harder than expected. A new study from the University of Iowa found improving access to affordable primary care reduced preventable...
July 8, 2015 | AHIP Coverage
As states look at how to provide high-quality, affordable care to Medicaid beneficiaries, more are turning to Medicaid managed care for the care coordination and support Medicaid health plans provide for millions. Nearly two-thirds of all...
July 7, 2015 | Politico
After a dozen years of flat funding, the National Institutes of Health has become a top target on Capitol Hill — not for less money but more, potentially billions more by 2020.
It’s a remarkable turnaround for the huge medical research...
July 6, 2015 | FierceHealthFinance
Streamlining the continuity of care among Medicare patients could save the United States hundreds of billions of dollars a year, TheStreet.com has reported.
That's the conclusion of a Johns Hopkins University study published in the July...
July 6, 2015 | Harvard Business Review
In the years leading up to 2009, Intel tried a number of popular approaches to tame its soaring health care costs. To encourage employees and their families to be more involved in the purchase of their care and aware of its actual cost,...
July 6, 2015 | AAFP News
Primary care physicians avoided another potential payment cut when the House and Senate agreed to remove a proposed Medicare pay reduction from trade legislation that recently became law.
The law, the Trade Preferences Extension Act,...
July 6, 2015 | AAFP News
Pay-for-performance programs first appeared on the health care landscape more than decade ago, and ever since then, stakeholders have been struggling with how to best reward health care professionals for their good work. Are physicians and...
July 5, 2015 | New York Times
The nation’s five largest health insurance companies are circling one another like hungry lions closing in on prey.
On Friday, Aetna said it would acquire its smaller rival Humana to create a company with combined revenues of $115 billion...
July 5, 2015 | Forbes
The politics of end-of-life care are beginning to disappear in Washington six years after Tea Party darling Sarah Palin injected false claims that Congressional health reform legislation included “death panels.”
Bipartisan legislation...
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