As part of the 2022 HCD Conference + Expo in San Antonio this month, The Center for Health Design presented its annual Changemaker Award. The annual honor recognizes individuals or organizations that have demonstrated the ability to change the way healthcare facilities are designed and built and whose work has had a broad impact on the advancement of healthcare design […]
The end of the year tends to light a fire under those looking to bring their organization’s goals to fruition. Thus is the case for some of home health’s top leaders during the last three months of the year. In the remaining months of 2022, leaders across home health care are focusing on addressing the U.S. Centers for Medicare & […]
SANFORD, N.C. — Before the coronavirus pandemic, Dr. Andrew Bush treated as many as 1,000 patients every month in his orthopedics practice. Now he worries about going bankrupt. The surgeon is among a dwindling number of independent physicians in the United States, where doctors are selling their practices to behemoth hospital systems or leaving the profession altogether. “I don’t want […]
Calling for Improvements to Senior Care Earlier this year, the Biden administration announced a focus on overhauling the country’s nursing home system, and LeadingAge has met with federal leaders to share members’ experiences. LeadingAge called for a three-pronged, governmentwide approach to nursing home improvement: address the urgent workforce crisis, fund quality care, and apply evidence-based quality improvement and measurement. With appropriate technologies, […]
The Holy Grail in healthcare today is a patient-centered, value-based care system. However, achieving this is not easy and some healthcare organizations are better suited than others to achieve this difficult transition away from fee-for-service, according to the Business Group on Health. The organization, which is a nonprofit that advocates for employers, believes that payers may be in the better position than […]
UnitedHealth Group will spend $100 million to integrate technology company Change Healthcare, executives said Friday. The company is working to add Change Healthcare’s claims processing to its OptumInsight revenue cycle management division. The healthcare giant completed its $13 billion acquisition of Change Healthcare this month, after a federal judge tossed the Justice Department’s antitrust challenge. UnitedHealth Group paid $7.8 billion […]
President Biden will sign an executive order on Friday to explore additional ways his administration can lower prescription drug costs. The order directs the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to examine how it can use its “Innovation Center” to lower drug costs, the White House said in a press release. The center, which was created under the Affordable […]
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The boomer generation is aging and overloading the United States healthcare system with a growing population of citizens who are living longer with nagging, chronic conditions that persistently impact their quality of life and hasten mortality. As the nation stares down the perilous challenge of managing healthcare for an aging population, it is the perfect time to look closer at […]