The American Hospital Association (AHA) reaffirmed its previous findings that hospital mergers and acquisitions result in reduced healthcare costs and improve care quality.
In 2019, the AHA published...
Healthcare spending and utilization dropped significantly at the onset of COVID-19 as more people pushed off care. New data from Peterson-KFF’s Health System Tracker show that spending and...
Vaccines could have prevented hundreds of thousands of COVID-19 hospitalizations and billions of dollars, a new analysis from the Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker reveals.
The analysis estimated...
Hospital price variation is widespread and much more noticeable now that CMS has enforced a price transparency rule, according to a recent report published in The New York Times.
The national news...
Hospital price transparency goes beyond just compliance with federal regulations. Patients are also demanding more transparent pricing information from their providers in order to make more informed...
A group of North Carolina residents have filed a healthcare antitrust lawsuit against a local hospital recently acquired by HCA Healthcare.
The lawsuit acquired by Axios alleges that Mission Health,...
A district court recently granted a preliminary injunction against a proposed hospital merger between New Jersey-based Hackensack Meridian Health and Englewood Health.
The organizations jointly...
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is recommending that HHS communicate information of the department’s plans for unused Provider Relief Fund money.
A report released publicly on July...
Whether a hospital price transparency rule designed to enable consumers to shop for healthcare services will lower healthcare costs is still up in the air after a recent poll shows low awareness of the...
Social determinants of health (SDOH) are associated with increased Medicare spending per beneficiary in certain geographic areas, according to a study from the Journal of the American Medical...
Fixed-rate hospital contracts yield lower prices and costs compared to discounted charges contracts, according to a study from the American Journal of Managed Care (AJMC).
Hospital visits result in...
HHS has updated Provider Relief Fund reporting requirements to give clinicians more time to use the payments and report on those uses.
The update to the Post-Payment Notice of Reporting Requirements...
Some independent primary care practices joining health system-led Medicare accountable care organizations (ACOs) raised their prices after what researchers called “soft consolidation,”...
National healthcare spending continued to grow right before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, increasing by 4.6 percent in 2019 to a total of $3.8 trillion, the American Medical Association (AMA)...
Sentara Healthcare and Cone Health have called off a planned healthcare merger after dozens of public comments poured in raising concerns about hospital consolidation and its impact on prices.
The...
President Joe Biden has requested an increase in the HHS budget next year to strengthen public health infrastructure and crisis-related needs, among other top health spending proposals.
The...
A study finding widespread and persistent delivery of low-value care services is based on incomplete data and omits important clinical details, according to the leading hospital professional...
If there is a lesson to take from the COVID-19 pandemic, it is that the way healthcare operates needs to change. Sudden, dramatic declines in patient volumes left many hospitals and health systems...
Vertical integration in healthcare, or direct ownership of physician practices by hospitals and health systems, has become increasingly popular. But this type of merger and acquisition is leading to...
Hospitals that are for-profit, non-teaching, and/or located in the South administer the highest rates of low-value care among traditional Medicare beneficiaries, according to a new study published in...
