Health Prime

JANUARY 29, 2025

The healthcare industry is always evolving—and with that comes the need to embrace technology that streamlines operations and enhances patient payment outcomes. Yet a new report highlights a significant disconnect between healthcare organizations and the consumers they serve. Despite rising out-of-pocket costs for patients, the industry has been slow to adopt the digital, self-service tools that consumers increasingly expect for managing their healthcare payments.

Billing

The Healthcare Blog

JANUARY 29, 2025

By DANIEL STONE As a doctor, I consider Secretary Xavier Becerra and his Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to be allies of practitioners like me. The behemoth federal agency administers Medicare and Medicaid, the Food and Drug Administration, and an army of public health workers. The Surgeon General, symbolic leader of the nations healthcare providers, reports to HHS.

Medication

Health Prime

JANUARY 29, 2025

The healthcare industry constantly evolves, and now it’s time to adapt technology tools that can help improve processes and raise the stakes of patient payments. However, according to the 2024 InstaMed Trends in Healthcare Payments Annual Report , datareveals a deep disconnect between the healthcare industry and consumers. The report states that even as healthcare consumer costs grow higher, the industry has not fully embraced the online, self-service tools consumers want for their healthc

Billing

The Healthcare Blog

JANUARY 29, 2025

By MICHAEL MILLENSON Money changes everything , Cyndi Lauper famously sang about love to a pulsating rock n roll beat. So, too, when it comes to financial incentives for surgeons, two new studies suggest, although How much money? and What do I have to do? are the keys to unlocking monetary motivation. The first study, a JAMA research letter, examined the impact of a new Medicare billing code for abdominal hernia repair that paid surgeons more if the hernia measured at least 3 centimeters in siz

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Speaker: Dr. Christine Gall, DrPH, MS, BSN, RN

The promise of virtual care is no longer theoretical and is now a critical solution to many of healthcare’s most urgent challenges. Yet many healthcare leaders remain unsure how to build a business case for investment and launching the right program at the right time can be the difference between value and failure. For organizations seeking a financially sound, clinically effective entry point, Virtual Patient Observation (VPO) offers a compelling case to lead with.

Clinical Operations

Forbes Healthcare

JANUARY 29, 2025

Advocate Health Care, the largest provider of medical care in Chicago, is closing 47 clinics it has operated inside Walgreens stores for nearly a decade.

Medication

Forbes Healthcare

JANUARY 29, 2025

Regular coffee drinkers live longer and enjoy a lower risk of heart disease.

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

JANUARY 29, 2025

Site-neutral payment policy is a distraction from the underlying causes of high healthcare costs and places providers at risk, argues Ascension’s chief health outcomes officer.

Forbes Healthcare

JANUARY 29, 2025

New recommendations from the U.S. dietary guidelines advisory committee include a push to eat more plant proteins and to also reduce red meat intake.

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

JANUARY 29, 2025

Main Line Health says Cigna hasn't updated its reimbursement rate since 2016. Cigna says it is negotiating in good faith to find a solution that keeps healthcare affordable for patients.

Forbes Healthcare

JANUARY 29, 2025

Music is a powerful and cost-effective asset that can make us healthier. Why dont we treat it as such across our national health policies?

Medical Economics

JANUARY 29, 2025

An infectious disease expert describes the state of AMR and how to fight it.

Forbes Healthcare

JANUARY 29, 2025

Right now, Kansas is in the midst of a major outbreak that's infected hundreds of people and sadly killed two.

Health Prime

JANUARY 29, 2025

The healthcare industry constantly evolves, and now it’s time to adapt technology tools that can help improve processes and raise the stakes of patient payments. However, according to the 2024 InstaMed Trends in Healthcare Payments Annual Report , datareveals a deep disconnect between the healthcare industry and consumers. The report states that even as healthcare consumer costs grow higher, the industry has not fully embraced the online, self-service tools consumers want for their healthc

Billing

Forbes Healthcare

JANUARY 29, 2025

Amazons One Medical is partnering with Montefiore Health System and its specialized network of medical care providers across Westchester County in New York.

Medication

Medical Economics

JANUARY 29, 2025

Ransomware gangs are increasingly targeting small medical practices

Medication

Forbes Healthcare

JANUARY 29, 2025

A study from the University of Toronto may have uncovered what keeps us in cycles of fear and stress.

Medical Economics

JANUARY 29, 2025

An infectious disease expert describes the state of AMR and how to fight it.

Physicians Practice

JANUARY 29, 2025

Neil Baum, MD, gives some tips on negotiating in your practice

Medical Economics

JANUARY 29, 2025

In places like the OR, AI can maximize efficiency

Physicians Practice

JANUARY 29, 2025

Anders Gilberg, senior vice president for government affairs at MGMA, discusses how the organization will approach working with Congress with the added wrinkle of the outsized influence of the world's richest man.

Medical Economics

JANUARY 29, 2025

An infectious disease expert describes the state of AMR and how to fight it.

Northwest Career College

JANUARY 29, 2025

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or CPR, is an emergency lifesaving procedure performed when someone’s breathing or heartbeat has stopped, allowing one to save someone’s life. One, therefore, needs up-to-date courses. Why It’s So Vital to Keep up with these Changes Guidelines for CPR are constantly changing to accommodate new results from research and scientific studies.

Follow-Up

Medical Economics

JANUARY 29, 2025

An infectious disease expert describes the state of AMR and how to fight it.

Forbes Healthcare

JANUARY 29, 2025

What to know from Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.s hearings before the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday and the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on Thursday.

Medical Economics

JANUARY 29, 2025

The top news stories in medicine today.

Medication

Forbes Healthcare

JANUARY 29, 2025

Chaos at the NIH, new dosages for an Alzheimers drug, a major tuberculosis outbreak and more.

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

JANUARY 29, 2025

The Office of Management and Budget rolled back a memo halting federal funding that caused widespread confusion and alarm. But “this is NOT a rescission of the federal funding freeze,” Trump’s top press secretary said.

Forbes Healthcare

JANUARY 29, 2025

Trump's decision to block communications between and from HHS agencies and the public is seriously hurting the FDA, CDC, NIH, and WHO and is harming public health.

Communication

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

JANUARY 29, 2025

Although experts predict payers, providers and health technology companies will grapple with uncertainty in a second Trump administration, some hope that years-long headwinds could begin reversing course in 2025.

Medical Economics

JANUARY 29, 2025

Presidents priorities are not changing, and there was to be no pause to Medicaid and some other spending programs, White House says.