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Health insurer Highmark has announced it will get rid of markups on certain cancer care services.
Iron County Hospital in Pilot Knob, Mo., is now Iron County Medical Center, according to a Wayne County Journal-Banner report.
The National Committee for Quality Assurance will "continue to evolve" its patient-centered medical home standards, the organization said in response to a recent PCMH study published in JAMA.
A new study sheds light on which physicians are most likely to feel the brunt of burnout — and they might not be the MDs you'd expect. In 2011 and 2012, study authors surveyed medical students, residents/fellows and early career…
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The operating room is the financial engine of most hospitals, and the feverish amount of merger and acquisition activity in the hospital industry holds great potential for improving the efficiency and profitability of ORs.
A three-year patient-centered medical home pilot program led to few quality gains and no reductions hospital utilization or total cost of care, a RAND Corporation study found.
Cigna has launched its first collaborative accountable care initiative in Arkansas with Springdale-based PremierCare Northwest, a provider-owned network and collaborative effort between physicians and Northwest Health System.
Healthcare's traditional fee-for-service payment system can create "large and often insurmountable barriers" to changes in patient care, such as avoiding unnecessary tests or providing treatment at earlier and lower-cost stages of disease.
UCSF Medical Center has partnered with Walgreen Co., the nation's largest drugstore chain, to open a pharmacy on the University of California, San Francisco's campus.