Health care in the United States is confusing for patients and consumers. Price transparency is a step in the right direction — transformative change can happen by combining cost, quality, appropriateness and efficiency measures.
Indiana researchers are diving deep to understand the costs and healthcare outcomes of precision medicine.
Alan Murray on improving access for medical transportation.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
AI-native tax firm Gelt combines top human tax experts with AI to help physicians and healthcare practices use data-driven tax strategies to lower liabilities, improve profitability, and future-proof their finances.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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...
In an interview, Munich Re Specialty Senior Vice President Jim Craig talked about the risk that accompanies innovation and the important role that insurers play.
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 ...
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...
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 […]
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...
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....