Emergency department visits and hospitalizations of Medicare Advantage (MA) beneficiaries can be reduced by value-based care, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Network Open.
Leonard Rosen was an institution in Northern Virginia, delivering more than 10,000 babies in the course of a four-decade career and offering guidance to thousands of women. He did humanitarian work in Bolivia; he helped develop less-invasive and more-affordable treatments; he offered no-cost treatment to women who could not afford care. But last year, he abruptly retired and closed his practice — a few months before admitting in federal court in Alexandria that he had participated in a fraud scheme by prescribing expensive scar creams in exchange for kickbacks.
State public health officials are touting a new law set to go into effect this year aimed at preventing "surprise" billing by health care providers. Gov. Charlie Baker signed the law in 2021 requiring that health care providers tell patients how much they will pay for planned hospital stays, medical procedures, healthcare services and referrals -- based on their individual health plans.
Physicians today face an onslaught of administrative hassles that steal our time with our patients as well as our families. These burdens are major sources of frustration and burnout, especially when they hinder delivery of the best patient care we can provide.
For 30 years, hospitals, insurers and other healthcare providers have sought ways to track patient outcomes to better determine which medical procedures are most effective and which physicians need to show improvement or be weeded out.
Kara Gardeen knew there would be blood, cramps and grief. Her doctor had confirmed the worst: The baby she and her husband had hoped to welcome to their family had not survived. Gardeen was about nine weeks pregnant. Now, she needed to find time to take the pills that would allow the miscarriage to conclude more quickly, instead of possibly waiting days or even weeks for the miscarriage to happen naturally.
