Health outcomes and satisfaction rates at NYU Langone Hospital–Brooklyn, previously known as Lutheran Medical Center, have improved after a hospital merger deal with NYU Langone in 2016,...
A study analyzing Choosing Wisely recommendations found that nearly 50 percent of identified low-value services may cause direct potential harm.
Published in JAMA Network, researchers...
Healthcare finance leaders can help to fix a broken healthcare system—one in which costs are high and outcomes are poor—by changing the culture of medicine, according to Robert Pearl, MD,...
Rural hospital mergers were associated with better patient outcomes compared to hospitals that remained independent, a study from JAMA Network Open found.
More than one in three community hospitals in...
Financial incentives for medical assistants have the potential to increase their motivation at work and improve the quality of the care they provide, according to a study in The Annals of Medicine....
Even as length of stay decreased for hip fracture patients, the disparity between Medicare reimbursements to hospitals and reimbursements to surgeons has grown in recent years for this procedure,...
Medicare fraud not only wastes billions of taxpayer dollars annually, but it also carries a significant human cost, according to a study from researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public...
A new survey from Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Companies suggests health system clinicians and executives are moving beyond traditional cost cutting initiatives to address cost pressures and...
Healthcare spending on 180 days of heart attack care grew 14.4 percent since 1999, but patient morality rates remained constant for heart attack patients after the 30-day discharge period when the bulk...
Healthcare providers may be able to decrease hospital costs by avoiding ICU admissions for some patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), exacerbation of heart failure (HF), and acute...
