People who got insurance through the ACA were significantly more likely to get prescription medications than they were before. And when they did, they typically ended up spending less of their own money for those drugs.
IT helped enable Lean methodology at Health First, a four-hospital IDN with a health plan in Brevard County, Florida.
What if health plans could identify member decline before an avoidable hospitalization occurs? Real-time clinical visibility into long-stay SNF members uncovers risk earlier and drives better outcomes.
If bundled payments are the wave of the future for paying healthcare providers, they still have a long way to go. A pilot program at hospitals in California that intended to test bundled payments for orthopedic procedures failed to meet its intended goals. The project succumbed to “recruitment challenges, regulatory uncertainty, administrative burden and concerns […]