The move toward value-based care is inevitable and in-home care must not be left behind. To realize the full potential, here are a few key shifts that must happen. The post Why It’s Time for In-Home Care to Catch Up to the Value-Based Care Movement appeared first on MedCity News.
ST. LOUIS — Inside the more than 600 Catholic hospitals across the country, not a single nun can be found occupying a chief executive suite, according to the Catholic Health Association. Nuns founded and led those hospitals in a mission to treat sick and poor people, but some were also shrewd business leaders. Sister Irene…
ECG Management Consultants’ Terri Welter says Medicaid presents a big opportunity to shift to value-based care, while the commercial insurers will probably be the last to do it
Rules restrict health plans from imposing greater restrictions on mental health or substance use disorder benefits than on medical and surgical benefits
Review of individuals’ data that may have been involved in ransomware attack has been completed
Maria Sanchez immigrated to the Chicago area from Mexico about 30 years ago. Now 87, she’s still living in the U.S. without authorization. Like many longtime immigrants, she has worked — and paid taxes, including Medicare taxes — all that time. But Sanchez never had health insurance, and when she turned 65, she couldn’t enroll…
His longstanding anti-vaccine rhetoric and vocal opposition to science-backed expert consensus has caused widespread concern among public health and medical professionals about the appropriateness of his leadership. The post Secretary Kennedy’s Pride and Prejudice appeared first on MedCity News.
As healthcare continues to become more and more dependent on third-party vendor services, provider and technology entities must remain focused on the risks that their vendors present. The post “Here, There and Everywhere”: Vendor Risks in the Health Care Sector appeared first on MedCity News.
It looks like the answer is ‘yes’. KFF reports that Holden Karau, a software engineer from the San Francisco Bay Area, created an AI tool to help appeal insurance denials. She calls it: Fight Health Insurance, How does it work? You’ve gotta make a scan of the denial letter from your insurance company, and run…