Clinical waste, including failures of care delivery, failures of care coordination, and overtreatment, accounts for up to 15.7 percent of all healthcare spending in the United States, according to a...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has authorized a lawsuit to block the proposed hospital merger between HCA Healthcare and Steward Health Care System, alleging that the transaction would increase...
Healthcare mergers and acquisitions further industry consolidation by combining two or more healthcare companies, hospitals, or physician practices. Typically, merging entities aim to lower healthcare costs and improve quality of care...
Private equity acquisitions of short-term acute care hospitals were generally not associated with any changes in patient outcomes or healthcare spending among Medicare beneficiaries, a study published...
The American Hospital Association (AHA) has asked the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to revise hospital merger guidelines to better account for the benefits...
Receiving care from higher-priced hospitals only led to better health outcomes when the facility was in a relatively unconcentrated market. There was no association between high prices and mortality at...
In order to ensure accountable care organization (ACO) and patient experience success, providers must collaborate across the continuum of care, suggested a recent study out of the Ohio State...
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...
According to a JAMA Health Forum study, nursing homes acquired by private equity firms have been associated with lower quality long-term care and higher Medicare costs in comparison to for-profit...
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....
CMS is looking to modernize the ACO reporting process by mandating the use of electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs). However, accountable care organizations (ACOs) are concerned that the lack of...
According to nearly a dozen leading medical groups, changes to accountable care organization (ACO) quality reporting are rushed, unclear, and potentially harmful to patient care.
In a letter to HHS...
Healthcare organizations have implemented a wide range of initiatives to improve care quality and patient experience while reducing costs. But a new study published by the Joint Commission is pointing...
A working paper from researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and New York University is raising questions about the benefits of private equity in healthcare.
The paper recently published in SSRN...
A greater reduction in low-value vitamin D screening was associated with a claims reimbursement change related to recommendations, according to a recent study.
Published in JAMA Network Open on...
Nearly $5.5 billion was spent on 20 low-value care services in 2015, according to an analysis of health care claims from the Research Consortium for Health Care Value Assessment.
The analysis, funded...
A new list of essential medications is highlighting the fragility of the hospital supply chain. The list devised by group purchasing organization Vizient names 200 drugs that, if unavailable due to...
Medicare overpaid surgeons by $2.6 billion for postoperative care even though only four percent of minor surgical procedures resulted in postoperative care, according to a recent study from RAND...
Four hospitals on Chicago’s South Side recently announced a hospital merger agreement to form a single system worth an estimated $1.1 billion.
Advocate Trinity Hospital, Mercy...
University of Florida Health (UF) researchers have partnered with the Health Services Advisory Group (HSAG) to complete a new quality measure for CMS to evaluate care in psychiatric hospitals...
