GE Healthcare and Hartford HealthCare launch 7-year collaboration
GE Healthcare and Hartford HealthCare are collaborating for the long-term to work toward solutions for faster, better care.
Gawande looks at the costly problem of wasteful care
Dr. Atul Gawande has done it again. Writing in the New Yorker, Gawande, a general surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, author and MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” recipient, painstakingly explains the “epidemic of unnecessary care” that bears much of the blame for the country’s runaway healthcare costs and preventable deaths. Gawande also looked […]
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The Best Options for Diagnostic Imaging Covered by Medicare
Health care professionals can refer patients to the best options for diagnostic imaging covered by Medicare to give more people the medical assistance they need without extra financial stress.
Cigna chief medical officer says ‘gap of hopefulness’ separates FDA approval & reimbursement
Cost effectiveness and outcomes drive value for payers, Cigna‘s Chief Medical Officer Alan Muney said. While some medical device companies assume an FDA approval will mean a definite reimbursement nod from payers, these two forces drive a sometimes wrongheaded “gap of hopefulness” for the industry. (See his discussion of why device companies need to think […]
Of course hospitals make money from complications!
A new JAMA article (Relationship Between Occurrence of Surgical Complications and Hospital Finances) by a variety of health care wonks including some of my former Boston Consulting Group colleagues demonstrates that hospitals make more money when surgical patients have complications. The article is useful in that it documents the extent of the situation but the [...]