The most pressing ethical issues in healthcare
Healthcare leaders say these ethical concerns are top of mind today.
Analysis: What healthcare providers need to know about short-term limited-duration health insurance products going into 2020
Healthcare providers need to be aware they will likely encounter an increase in the number of patients who have purchased short-term health insurance, with its limited benefits, that will be available on the healthcare exchange in 2020.
Analysis: CMS proposed rule could provide price data to inform physician referrals
While the proposed health plan price transparency rule will likely be challenged, if it survives those challenges, it will be far more impactful on health spending than the negotiated charge-posting requirement.
M&A trend: More acquisitions of small or ‘distressed’ hospitals
Hospital M&A deals in 2019 have included increasing shares of financially distressed and smaller hospitals.
Congress is still expected to pass a surprise-bill measure this year
Congress is likely to enact surprise-bill legislation in the waning days of 2019, according to policy advisers.
Strategy, technology and tactics for sustainable performance improvement
Results of a recent survey, in which hospital and health system leaders described areas where their organizations have the greatest need for performance improvement, point to four key strategic areas of focus for these leaders.
Analysis: How traditional healthcare providers can compete with innovators and progressive incumbents
Providing high-quality and cost-efficient services is the first step traditional healthcare providers must take to stave off business disruption by new entrants and progressive incumbents into the market.
Analysis: Much ado about the Ascension/Google Project Nightingale
While the partnership should have been made public by Google and Ascension, this is the future of healthcare performance improvement.
Analysis: Hospital at home will move inpatient admissions into the home
Acute care providers must analyze the risks and opportunities of participating in the at-home-hospital model of patient care.
One health system finds ‘millions’ of reasons to audit value-based payments
A health system identified millions of dollars in underpayments that it should have received as part of two value-based payment arrangements in recent years.