Sidebar: Screening for Food Insecurity
The American Academy of Pediatrics encourages pediatricians to use a validated two-question screening tool to identify patients who may need help getting food.
Providers Focus on Food Insecurity
Recognizing that food insecurity has a direct impact on health, provider organizations are launching initiatives to address hunger in their communities. When Mountain Comprehensive Health Corporation (MCHC), a federally qualified health center in rural Kentucky, started sending
Diverse M&A Activity Showcases New Partnership Rationale
Healthcare organizations are merging or partnering for different reasons than they did in the past, highlighting the move toward value-based care and population health management.
What’s Behind an Innovative Tool?
A specialized department to help clinicians and researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital get their innovative ideas to market.
Direct Primary Care Gains Traction
Direct primary care is gaining a foothold in the healthcare industry because it promotes convenience for consumers and greater accountability among providers.
Healthcare Strategy in the Year of Uncertainty
Economics continues to overshadow politics as a driver of healthcare strategy for providers, with market forces looming large even amid legislative uncertainty.
Ask the Experts: Medical Equipment Leasing
What are the current leasing trends for medical equipment?
Understanding the Current State of MACRA
Hospitals and their employed physicians should take certain actions now to avoid penalties and ensure proper payment under MACRA, as well look at future education and staffing needs.
Finding Success with Provider-Sponsored Health Plans During Uncertain Times
Community Health Choice, a provider-sponsored health plan started by Harris Health System, has grown its marketplace membership from 300 enrollees to 150,000 over four enrollment periods. Despite uncertainty about the future of federal healthcare laws and the marketplaces, the health plan says that it may still experience growth in 2018.
Strategic Financial Planning: Summer 2017
Subscribers can access the Summer 2017 issue of Strategic Financial Planning.