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December 26, 2018 | American Academy of Pediatrics
As we move toward a system of value-based care where the focus is on high quality, cost-effective care of populations, payors are setting rates per member per month that are designed to maximize the preventive health aspects of a care team...
December 24, 2018 | The Daily Sentinel
Grand Valley and Western Colorado patients who go through blood and marrow transplant procedures at the Huntsman Cancer Institute can now have some of their follow-up appointments locally after they return home.
Salt Lake City's Huntsman...
December 20, 2018 | Kaiser Health News
If Friday night’s district court ruling that the Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional were to be upheld, far more than the law’s most high-profile provisions would be at stake.
In fact, canceling the law in full — as Judge Reed O’...
December 20, 2018
Mass shootings and casualties happen far too often. A recent episode of 60 Minutes led with a piece on how those who are on the scene first, such as kids and innocent bystanders, can increase the chance of survival in mass shootings by...
December 19, 2018 | StonyBrook University News
A national survey of nurse practitioner (NP) training program educators reveals that a large majority of responders believe graduates’ level of oral health training and competence is at a high level, and therefore NPs are vital and...
December 18, 2018 | The Boston Globe
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey and her counterparts in 17 other states filed a motion Monday challenging a Texas federal judge’s ruling last week that struck down the Affordable Care Act.
The motion, filed in the US District...
December 18, 2018 | STAT
My first cousin died suddenly in his home last month. More like a brother to me, Steve was a 68-year-old avid saltwater fisherman who had been healthy all his life — you’d be far more likely to find him angling for bonefish on the flats of...
December 18, 2018 | New York Times
Suicide prevention efforts by the Department of Veterans Affairs fell off sharply in the last two years, even though reducing the high suicide rate among veterans is the agency’s top clinical priority, according to a new report.
With...
December 17, 2018 | The Hill
About three in 10 Americans say they have delayed seeking medical treatment within the past year because of medical costs, according to a new poll published Monday.
A Gallup poll found that 29 percent of respondents said they had put off...
December 13, 2018
Health insurance customers generally report poor experiences with their health plans. Only utility and internet and television service providers have worse customer service scores, and that's saying something. But health insurers say...
December 12, 2018 | Health Affairs Blog
While the current opioid epidemic has captured the attention of the country and its policy makers by becoming the leading cause of death in the United States for those younger than age 50, addiction to a broader range of substances has...
December 11, 2018 | The Hill
The House on Tuesday passed a bipartisan bill aimed at reversing the maternal mortality crisis in the U.S. in what supporters say is the strongest action yet that Congress has taken on the issue.
The bill from Reps. Jaime Herrera Beutler...
December 10, 2018 | Health Affairs Blog
When Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JP Morgan first announced plans to create a joint health care venture, many assumed they were teaming up to lower health care costs. This makes sense. Employers have always been a significant payer in...
December 10, 2018 | Health Affairs
Only a small proportion of people with a substance use disorder (SUD) receive treatment. The shortage of SUD treatment providers, particularly in rural areas, is an important driver of this treatment gap. Telemedicine could be a means of...
December 7, 2018 | The Boston Globe
Patient “rounds’’ — the crucial daily meetings when doctors and other caregivers determine treatment — often occur in hospital hallways and remote conference rooms.
But a study led by Boston researchers concluded that it’s far safer to do...
December 6, 2018 | Modern Healthcare
Reforming the physician fee schedule would help close the income gap that has led to a shortage of primary-care physicians, according to a new paper.
When Congress shifted pay models from individual physicians' historical charges to the...
December 6, 2018 | The New England Journal of Medicine
The future of U.S. health care reform is muddier now than at any point in the past two decades. Health care was one of the most important issues for voters in the 2018 election, but there is little reason to believe that substantive...
December 5, 2018 | Star Tribune
The popularity of telemedicine has soared among Minnesotans in the past decade, with urban dwellers seeking the convenience of routine care online and rural residents videochatting with distant doctors for everything from prescription...
December 5, 2018 | Washington Post
The organization that controls the distribution of livers for transplant revised its controversial allocation policy for the second time in a year, further limiting transplant centers’ access to organs collected in their areas.
The new...
