Dive Brief: A new study in JAMA Network Open finds that Medicare patients with heart failure or pneumonia likely had more costs associated with the hospital where they were receiving treatment than their acuity. The researchers randomly studied 1.22 million patients discharged between July 2013 and June 2016, and further isolated them to 1,615 patient… Read More »
Pressure ulcers are a major health issue for providers and kill more patients a year than any single cancer except lung cancer, according to one expert who, with other researchers, is releasing the results of new findings in the field next month. Pressure ulcers, also called pressure injuries and in the vernacular, bedsores, are also… Read More »
The Medical Group Management Association is the latest industry group to offer feedback to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services about their proposed interoperability rules. WHY IT MATTERSMGMA has big concerns about the cost, administrative burden the rules could put on physician practices, as well… Read More »
Industry watchers have been speculating for months about just how high Novartis would price gene therapy Zolgensma on approval—and just how payers would cover it. And with the FDA’s green light, they now have an answer. The Swiss drugmaker will roll out the drug, a one-time treatment for pediatric patients less than 2 years of… Read More »
Much has been said about the fact that the eyebrows are the frame of the face and, therefore, largely determine the features and expressions of a person. For this reason, when ageing and flaccidity affect the firmness of the skin of the eyebrows, it is important to look for an aesthetic alternative that will improve… Read More »
Failure to manage referrals and patient leakage can result in a loss of revenue, and a new Fibroblast survey details the extent to which this is true, with 43 percent of health executives saying their organization is losing more than 10 percent of their revenue to patients going elsewhere for care. Meanwhile, 19 percent of… Read More »