Value-based care contracting is especially difficult for behavioral health providers, Taft Parsons III, chief psychiatric officer at CVS Health/Aetna, pointed out during a conference this week.
Here is a selection of recent executive hires, retirements, promotions and layoffs occurring across the healthcare industry.
Closing cancer health equity gaps require medical breakthroughs made possible by new funding approaches.
The word has gained greater urgency in recent years as the consumer trend in healthcare has forced payers, providers and all other kinds of healthcare stakeholders to swear by it.
In a recent interview, Dr. Jesse Ehrenfeld, the president-elect at the American Medical Association, outlined how the major pain point of physicians has gone from the EHR to prior authorizations requests. But none of the individual efforts that payers are making is enough.
About 28% of Americans consider themselves to be caregivers, and 22% are unpaid, according to a new survey from CVS Health and Harris Poll. These caregivers are facing financial and mental health struggles: 47% said that being a caregiver is a financial burden and 49% said their mental health suffers from being a caregiver.
"This decision sends pharmacists a dangerous message: you're expected to overrule doctors - and not doing so can be costly."
Executives from Imagine360, Verily, BrightInsight, Lantern, and Rhapsody shared their approaches to reducing healthcare costs and facilitating digital transformation.
Insurers’ abuse of prior authorization is creating health risks for patients and contributing to higher downstream costs for both beneficiaries and the larger health care system.
MedCity News has assembled compelling speakers to address the Covid-prompted rapid transformation of healthcare at this year's virtual INVEST conference, April 19-23.