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- June 12, 2013
Language bank provides live telephonic interpretation for practitioner, patient
Read moreHerald Mail May 30, 2013 An elderly woman heads into the emergency room with severe stomach pain. She hardly understand what’s happening, let alone how the doctors will fix it. All she knows is that it hurts, she’s alone and she doesn’t speak English. As medical personnel come and go from...
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Medicare Spending Variations Mostly Due To Health Differences
Read moreKaiser Health News May 28, 2013 The idea that uneven Medicare health care spending around the country is due to wasteful practices and overtreatment—a concept that influenced the federal health law — takes another hit in a study published Tuesday. The paper concludes that health differences around the country...
- June 12, 2013
National Council Name Chage
Read moreNational Council for Behavioral Health June 6, 2013 Kittens have notoriously short attention spans. They chase the most exciting thing around. To entice them, you must get right to the point. So, what was the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare to do?Shorten our name, of course. Click here...
- June 12, 2013
AHA Defends Hospital Consolidations
Read moreHealthLeaders Media June 12, 2013 The volume of mergers and acquisitions in healthcare is “consistent with efforts to try to achieve economies of scale… and changes in demand and particularly to realign and enhance services,” says a report from the American Hospital Association. The American Hospital Association contends that...
- June 12, 2013
Colonoscopies Explain Why U.S. Leads the World in Health Expenditures
Read moreThe New York Times June 1, 2013 Deirdre Yapalater’s recent colonoscopy at a surgical center near her home here on Long Island went smoothly: she was whisked from pre-op to an operating room where a gastroenterologist, assisted by an anesthesiologist and a nurse, performed the routine cancer screening procedure...
- June 12, 2013
Most Doctors Don’t Meet U.S. Push for Electronic Records
Read moreBloomberg June 3, 2013 Fewer than 1 in 10 doctors used electronic records last year to U.S. standards, according to a survey that shows the challenge facing a multibillion-dollar effort to digitize the health system for improved patient care. Only 9.8 percent of 1,820 primary-care and specialty doctors said...
- June 12, 2013
Study highlights cost benefit of expanding Medicaid
Read moreModernHealthcare.org June 3, 2013 An independent study released today in the journal Health Affairs on the economic impact of Medicaid expansion under healthcare reform found that states’ share of the cost of expanding Medicaid under reform would be lower than the cost of providing uncompensated care to their uninsured...
- June 12, 2013
CMS unveils charges for outpatient hospital procedures
Read moreModernHealthcare.com June 5, 2013 Less than a month after the CMS released data on what hospitals charge for inpatient procedures, the agency has released similar information about the prices hospitals submit and are paid on the outpatient side. The greater transparency comes as hospitals have pushed back against the...
- June 12, 2013
Commercial insurers less likely to offer ACOs ‘upside-only’ shared-savings arrangements
Read moreModernHealthcare.com June 5, 2013 Commercial insurers participating in accountable care arrangements are less likely than Medicare to use payment models featuring the “upside-only” shared savings preferred by providers, according to an analysis released Wednesday by the Premier healthcare alliance. Premier’s study of 85 ACO payer arrangements showed that more...
- June 12, 2013
Employment is Forecasted to Soar for the NP and PA Workforce
Read moreNational Rural Health Resource Center June 3, 2013 Minnesota is suffering from a primary health care workforce shortage and the road to improved population health begins with increased access to care. A large portion of the primary care workforce is nearing retirement while fewer medical students are choosing primary...
