In the News: March 22–29
By Sg2 TeamThis week: The utility of wearables for cardiac patients, physician group acquisitions by insurers due to Medicare Advantage and youth suicide rates
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This week: The utility of wearables for cardiac patients, physician group acquisitions by insurers due to Medicare Advantage and youth suicide rates
This week: Asthma mortality and care management; Amazon, JP Morgan and Berkshire Hathaway’s health care company; and payment rate increases for Medicare Advantage plans
As virtual health has continued to gain traction the market and become increasingly a mainstream modality of care delivery, many have pointed toward Mississippi as an example of how virtual...
Recently NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital announced that it will be partnering with Walgreens to offer virtual health services in select Walgreens. The services will be provided via the Walgreens website and at...
This year’s flu season has been particularly bad, with the CDC officially stating that it has reached “epidemic” levels. Unfortunately, as has been widely reported, this year’s flu shot was...
This week: 4 health systems form a drug company, ACOs eligible to earn more with downside risk and recent flu trends from the CDC
This week: community partnerships, Medicaid work requirements and Maryland’s All-Payer Hospital Model extended
This week: prepregnancy weight trends; social determinants and population health variation; and insurer participation in ACA marketplaces
This week: AI enhancing colonoscopy, observation care and out-of-pocket costs, Medicare Payment Model results.
This week: CVS Health to buy Aetna, value-based benefit designs and the mortality rate of opioid-driven hospitalizations
This week: Gene editing inside a human body, states ending retroactive coverage for Medicaid and contingency plans for CHIP
This week: Staffing cost trends, surgical partnerships’ impact on costs, and PCMH elements that improve outcomes.
This week: 340B payment cuts, TKA IP-only list removal, site-neutral rate reduction for HOPDs, and finalized MACRA rules for 2018.
This week: Proposed rule for 2019 public exchanges, genome sequencing in NICUs, and the proportion of hospital-associated medical care in the ED.
This week: Maryland’s online price transparency tool, gender difference in controlled hypertension, and trends in state Medicaid spending.
This week: The end of cost-sharing reduction payments to insurers, the impact of high-deductible health plans on utilization and cost reduction, and increases in US obesity rates
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