By Mark Spinner – For one out of three consumers, inflation is the top reason they fear being unable to pay for an unexpected medical expense. Yet consumers want to prioritize health and fitness spending in the year ahead, an Accenture survey found.
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By David Burda – Businesses in every industry diversify for economic reasons: to generate new revenue or protect existing revenue. It’s not any more complicated than that. Hospitals and health systems are businesses in the healthcare industry.
By Ritesh Ramesh – Healthcare organizations are under tremendous pressure to reduce compliance risk and optimize revenue flow, a feat that will require flawless optimization for billing compliance, coding, revenue cycle, and revenue integrity capabilities.
Notable 2022 news being reported on payers and the health insurance industry.
By Brian Conrad BSN RN – Food insecurity and low nutritional awareness contribute to multiple chronic health conditions in patients across the United States. Some diseases linked to food insecurity include hypertension (high blood pressure), diabetes, coronary heart failure, and kidney disease, just to name a few.
By Jim Dumond – CRISPR is a gene-editing technology that enables scientists to chemically snip out and rearrange genetic sequences to alter DNA, often with the goal of eliminating hereditary diseases. The technology holds enormous implications for our ability to…
By David Burda – Like I mentioned in a previous blog post, I didn’t know jack about ESG until someone asked me about it, and I looked it up to appear like I knew what I was talking about. If you read that post, you’d know ESG stands for environmental, social and governance.
Latest news being reported on payers and the health insurance industry including news from Sesame, Angle Health, United Healthcare, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, CVS Health, Humana, AHIP, Oscar Health, and more.
By BJ Schaknowski – As widely reported and acutely felt, in 2022 health systems are broadly on track to post their worst financial results in decades. That fact is all the reminder we need that healthcare organizations are businesses with exposure to macro-economic headwinds and tailwinds, like any other.