Bipartisan Policy Center recommends CMS give MA plans flexibility in targeting supplemental benefits to members with chronic care conditions.

Understanding the root causes of financial hardship enables hospital executives to best pick which areas to improve first.

Almost a quarter of healthcare security directors at hospitals think their facilities are unprepared for incidents involving a shooter.

Oscar says it uses technology to lower cost: More than 60 percent of member interactions with health systems are virtual.

Taking a disciplined approach to re-negotiating contracts with your top vendors enables hospitals to leverage power they might not know they have and achieve immediate results.

Hit especially hard were Massachusetts' community hospitals, with median operating margins plunging to 0.9 percent.

The top two priorities boil down to cost and consumerism has surged into the top 5 for 2018, mirroring industry trends.

The overall health of the population, more advanced medical equipment and a general lack of awareness regarding the best types of treatment can all affect costs.

Among the lesser-known benefits of telehealth are its abilities to help hospitals strengthen a provider's billing and payment collections.

What looks like a nightmare for hospital finance executives is also an opportunity to reduce excessive losses typically associated with such claims.

Electronic health records play a big part and the problem is especially prevalent in emergency medicine, family medicine, internal medicine and pediatrics.

The new communities, targeted at 9 types of attendees, will enable people to navigate the conference year-round.

The custom sensor would measure information from the body beyond heart rate, report says.

Establish clear strategic goals and target a financial return, get the revenue cycle right, and motivate employees accordingly.

From New York to Salt Lake City, these are the hospitals and health systems investing money to improve their facilities -- or build new ones.

Prosecutors for the 10 regional strike forces currently in operation have charged over 3,700 defendants in connection to more than $14 billion in false billings, DOJ says.

The pharma industry is skating to where they know the puck is going on drug price transformation, HHS Secretary Alex Azar says.

Hospital giving certain patients a nutrition consultation, two-day supply of fresh produce and a prescription for two refills.

Administrator Seema Verma says it's time for ACOs to take on downside risk, in a proposal that would save Medicare $2.2 billion over 10 years.

Although readmissions have fallen by 3 percent, patients discharged from nonteaching hospitals faced a significantly higher risk of readmission.

The institutions that were studied added more than $562 billion in value to the nation's economy in 2017, including direct and indirect economic impact.

Providers were more likely to anticipate savings than were payers, with 75 percent of provider execs foreseeing that kind of return, compared to 44 percent of payers.

Anderson will oversee innovation in a group that was formed from the practitioners of RWJBarnabas Health and the Rutgers Health Group.

Doctors need to carefully and properly use the HCC codes, which indicate the expected costs for a patient.

Administrator Seema Verma said changes to the program eliminate 25 measures and saves hospitals over 2 million hours of work and $75 million.

Eligible consumers will be able to use their over-the-counter allowance on medications and health-related items such as first- aid supplies, support braces, and pain relievers.

Anthem optimizes member interactions using digital solutions to leverage provider searches.

One of the main ways drug spending is mitigated is through market competition from biosimilar and generic drugs.

Organizations are each expanding services to address non-medical factors that can have a significant impact on individual and population health.

With the median annual loss of nearly $450,000 due to theft many practices have plenty of room for improvement, new research from MGMA found.

Pharmacy giant now offering telemedicine services in 10 US states with nationwide expansion planned by year's end.

Investor Carl Icahn says he will vote against $54 billion PBM acquisition as being too high a price.