Can precision medicine save money? Large Indiana study aims to find out.
Indiana researchers are diving deep to understand the costs and healthcare outcomes of precision medicine.
The real cost of driving into a hospital parking lot
The price of your next colonoscopy might just depend on where you park your car. The same procedure can vary greatly – even if you use the same doctor – from one medical setting to the next. Get a colonoscopy at a GI center, and it could cost $600. But take your procedure to a […]
With the Rise of AI, What IP Disputes in Healthcare Are Likely to Emerge?
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
#JPM15: Ezekiel Emanuel talks health care costs – and why many cancer drugs just aren’t worth it
Ezekiel Emanuel didn’t talk death-at-75 at this week’s J.P. Morgan conference – he talked money. Namely, the costs associated with health care – what counts as appropriate expenditure, and what’s egregious. Personalized medicine was on his hit list, as he rattled off some of the chinks in the U.S. health care cost structure. The reason, he […]
The economics of high-cost specialty drugs, illustrated
Specialty drugs – the costly medications used to treat complex disease like cancer and Hepatitis C – have become a hot-button topic given the fact that healthcare spending is perpetually on the rise. After a five-year contraction in healthcare spending growth, medical costs are projected to climb another 6.8 percent in 2015, according to the Health […]
6 tools needed to make ‘consumer driven healthcare’ more than a buzzword
Consumer Driven Healthcare. Though I’m glad that we are finally starting to put the consumer in the middle of the healthcare equation, I still cringe when I hear those words. Let’s be clear – consumers have not been driving this evolution – they have been given the “gift” of financial responsibility. 15.5 million Americans are on […]
Debating the value of an all-payer claims database
Nearly a decade before the Affordable Care Act, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and a few other states began creating all-payer claims databases (APCDs). Acting as trusted third parties, they required all commercial insurance carriers within their borders to hand over their claims data, including the prices paid. In the last three years, the number of […]
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A Personalized Approach to Medication Nonadherence
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
What bugs Americans most about their healthcare? ‘Everything is just very expensive’
Recently, I moved across the country, from Washington, D.C., to San Francisco. I drove the Southern route and decided to conduct an informal survey, asking folks I met along the way a question relevant to the health care reporting I’ve been doing for the past five years. The question: What bugs you most about your […]
15 healthcare startups that should be thankful for Obamacare
Last summer when we were still waiting for the Supreme Court to rule on the Affordable Care Act, many people I talked to said that regardless of the decision, the wheels were in motion. Too much had already happened for the Court to get the horse back in the barn. That may be true, but […]
Pick up dry cleaning, buy shoes, get stitches: Freestanding ERs are convenient but costly
HUMBLE, Texas -- When Lisa Boncler gashed the side of her head on the gate to her front yard, she immediately called her neighbor for a ride to the emergency room. Toby Hamilton, CEO of Emerus, which runs freestanding ERs in Texas, stands between hi...
Kentucky scrambled (and stumbled) putting Medicaid members into managed care, has ‘scars to prove it’
GREENSBURG, Ky. -- Kaden Stone loves playing baseball, riding his bike and watching Duck Dynasty on TV at his red-brick ranch-style house in rural south central Kentucky. Despite his energy, the tiny boy of eight with a crewcut and missing front ...
Maximize Revenue and Patient Care with Strategic Weight Loss Management
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
Website campaigns help raise funds to pay medical bills
Even with Stage IV lung cancer, there are moments when 32-year-old Chip Kennett feels blessed. Over the course of two weeks in April, those moments were many, as 325 friends and family members contributed $56,800 over the Internet to help defray his ou...
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Analysts: Another year of slowdown in the growth of healthcare cost signifies a trend
The cost of healthcare is still growing, but it’s growing at a rate that Pricewaterhouse Coopers analysts say has slowed and will likely continue to do so. Healthcare organizations still seem to be nursing what PwC’s Health Research Institute calls a “recession hangover” but are also under the influenced of larger dynamics that are creating […]
Obamacare’s impact on insurance claim costs: FAQ on the latest study
It’s too early to know how much individual health insurance policies will cost once the online marketplaces created under the Affordable Care Act launch Jan. 1. But that hasn’t stopped experts and interest groups from making predictions. Th...
Even in Canada, wealth influences treatment: study
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Poorer people have a harder time getting a doctor's appointment in Canada, a new study suggests - even though the country's universal health insurance pays doctors the same amount regardless of the type of patient they see....
In conservative Arizona, government-run health care that works
As Congress debates an ambitious and far-reaching effort by the Obama administration to streamline medical care and rein in spending for the nation’s sickest and most expensive patients, Arizona – with its finger-wagging Republican governor and Tea Party enthusiasts – is occupying an unusual place in the national landscape: as a model for how a generously-funded, tightly regulated government program can aid vulnerable, low-income patients.