Video: Sharing Data With Doctors to Improve Care
Health insurers are sharing valuable data that gives health care providers a more complete picture of their practice’s quality and efficiency — and how they compare with their peers.
Health insurers are sharing valuable data that gives health care providers a more complete picture of their practice’s quality and efficiency — and how they compare with their peers.
Health systems say getting bigger allows them to adapt to a changing industry. But the mergers may be driving prices higher.
Small, independent practices are capable of delivering quality, cost-effective care — but they need new kinds of tools and expertise to adapt and compete.
This much-hyped technology may be part of the answer to making the fragmented U.S. health care system more efficient.
The debate about drug prices has raised the profile of a traditionally quiet player in health care: the pharmacy benefit manager, or PBM.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans in Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas launched the $1.5 billion endeavor called Affordability Cures because the burden of paying for coverage and care is too often at odds with health and financial security.
Variations on traditional HMO and PPO provider networks are helping consumers and employers save money while also providing access to quality health care.
Find the four main reasons health spending has grown in recent years, how clinics are making big bucks on drug screens and why we’re looking back at a research article from 2003 in this week’s five must-reads on health care costs.
Some believe artificial intelligence has the potential to transform health care from fighting diseases to preventing them in the first place.
Patients often unknowingly choose higher-cost treatments and care settings that deliver no additional value. Sometimes they get tests and treatments they may not need at all.
This week’s must-reads explore where our dollars go in the health care system, point to secret prices as a reason for out-of-control spending and uncover how something as small as an eye drop may be a hidden source of big waste.
The health care industry is moving toward viewing and paying for all of the care associated with a single condition or procedure — such as knee replacement surgery and rehabilitation — as one product.
Addressing the social determinants of health is an important piece of reducing health inequality, but the conversation must also be part of the emerging efforts between payers and providers to control costs.