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Finance
Hospitals Still Lagging on Cost Transformation Measures
Health system executives have to pick up the pace on implementing effective cost transformation initiatives, according to a new survey...
Strategy
CVS-Aetna Deal Tests Who Has The Right Data
This merger's strategy may up the ante for rival health insurers as they try to show employers and consumers they...
Finance
Why We Need Advanced Practice Clinicians
A former primary care doctor who's now a health system CEO says physician leaders need to get comfortable with the...
Strategy
SSM Health CEO Laura Kaiser on Building a Sustainable Healthcare System
After her first year with SSM Health, CEO Laura Kaiser talks about 'shifting our expensive rescue care system to one...
Strategy
Neurosurgeon Focuses Congressional Campaign on Including Patients in Cost Conversations
Dr. Jim Maxwell, who has served as chief of neurosurgery at Rochester General Hospital since 1998, is campaigning to represent...
No More Secrets: Congress Bans Pharmacist 'Gag Orders' On Drug Prices
The president was expected to sign two bills Wednesday that ban clauses that prohibit pharmacists from telling customers when they...
Finance
Doctors Give Medicare's Proposal To Pay For Telemedicine Poor Prognosis
Budget hawks worry that rather than replace comparatively expensive in-person visits, extra telemedicine billings would add to them.
Finance
How to Limit Waste in Hospital Supply Chains
Limiting waste of perishable supplies and other products reduces costs in a way that goes straight to the bottom line.
Clinical Care
Spurred By Convenience, Millennials Often Spurn The 'Family Doctor' Model
Their preferences for fast service, connectivity, and price transparency are upending the time-honored model of office-based primary care.
Finance
High-Deductible Health Plans Fall From Grace In Employer-Based Coverage
Few if any employers will return to the much more generous coverage of a decade or more ago. But they?re...
Nursing
Want to Decrease Falls? Here's how.
A combination of screening, modifying risk factors, and evidence-based interventions can lower older adults' fall risk.
Strategy
Former Press Ganey CEO Discusses Congressional Run
Mel Hall, the 'relentless pragmatist' who formerly led the patient survey firm, is seeking to unseat incumbent Republican Representative Jackie...