By Markian Hawryluk – Kristie Flowers had been sick with the flu for four or five days in July before the 52-year-old registered nurse from Genoa, Colo., acknowledged she needed to go to the ER.
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The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and the West Health Policy Center have launched the Health Savers Initiative, a collaborative research project to develop bold policy solutions to lower health care costs.
If you haven’t tuned in to our HealthcareNOW Radio you are missing out. We sorted through the archives of HealthcareNOW Radio Shows and found four unique episodes where our hosts discuss healthcare costs and patient payments. Take a listen.
By Abhinav Shashank – Innovation has been driving the US healthcare and steering it on the wheels of novel payment models towards better outcomes in quality of care and cost. However, these new payment models seem to be perpetually stuck in a state of delay.
By Joel Cohen PhD – When the Nation’s top health services researchers want information about what patients are spending on healthcare, they turn to a reliable source: AHRQ’s Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), an integral part of the Agency’s unique inventory of data tools and resources.
By Noah Dermer – We’ve come a far way since the EMV fraud liability shift went into effect four years ago in October 2015. Since then, swiping cards has almost become a thing of the past. Consumers have come to expect chip-enabled payment cards for…
By Noah Dermer – When new technologies and methodologies enter the healthcare payments industry, they can create quite the buzz. Two that I’ve been hearing a lot about recently are credit checks in healthcare and contactless payments.
By Sarah Jane Tribble – As rural hospital closures roil the country, some states are banking on a Trump administration proposal to change the way hospital payments are calculated to rescue them.
By Dr. Mansoor Khan – Medicare’s Bundled Payment for Care Improvement (BPCI) program has seen more ups and downs than the stock market. Here we go again! CMS seems to be pulling another about-face on Bundled Payments.