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Hospitals offering housing for improved patient care
Hospitals and health systems investing in housing helps control costs while also ensuring that discharged patients have a safe and clean place to sleep each night, writes Jay Bhatt, D.O., AHA senior vice president and chief medical officer.
Cardinal Health testing surgical gowns, packs affected by impending recall
Cardinal Health continues to assess how many surgical gowns and procedure packs are affected by a quality issue at a contract manufacturing facility, but has placed a hold on potentially impacted lots as far back at September 2018 as a precaution, the company said during a Department of Health and Human Services call with stakeholders.
Major Tech Deal to Drive Telehealth Integration
Providers and payers weren’t the only ones making news about how they’re working to remove or reduce cost and transform care delivery. On the eve of the conference, telemedicine giant Teladoc said it was buying the virtual care platform provider InTouch Health for $600 million.
Providers Cut Costs, Better Engage Patients
Leaders from health care delivery systems, insurers, the pharmaceuticals industry and technology companies converged on San Francisco last week for the annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference and got a close-up look at just how quickly the field is transforming. News came quickly on several fronts, including company acquisitions, the ongoing push among many payers into clinical services as they try to drive down care delivery costs and more.
Leaders Come Together with Updates on Health Care Transformation
Intermountain Healthcare, long committed to reducing patients’ out-of-pocket costs, is making good on its pledge albeit at a steep price, Chief Financial Officer Bert Zimmerli told a packed crowd.
Payers Push to Slow Disease Progression
Payers like Humana and Oscar Health, along with Aetna, represented by its parent company CVS Health, provided updates on how their evolving strategies are reducing health care costs and driving health behaviors. Humana CEO Bruce Broussard said the flurry of payer mergers and acquisitions in the payer field largely have been fueled by a desire to slow disease progression. Humana’s investments in primary care and physician groups illustrate its commitment in this area.
Free resources available to help hospitals and health systems prevent human trafficking
In this final Q&A in conjunction with Human Trafficking Awareness month, Ashely Garrett, director of National Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance Center, shares why hospitals and health systems are key players in stopping human trafficking and what support exists to strengthen interventions.
Charles River Associates Report: Hospital Merger Benefits
Mergers have become one of the critical means through which hospitals can provide their communities with high-quality, convenie
MedPAC approves 2021 payment recommendations
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission recommended that Congress provide a 2% market-basket update for the hospital inpatient and outpatient prospective payment systems in 2021.