Articles Tagged With: costs
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Is Screening for Atrial Fibrillation Cost Effective?
Self-screening for atrial fibrillation in elderly individuals could lead to lower stroke rates, prevent bleeding-related hospitalizations, and save money.
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Pandemic Emergency Funds Spiked Healthcare Spending
Data show eye-popping healthcare expenditure growth for 2020, driven by federal paycheck protection, provider assistance, vaccine development, and virus testing.
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Measles Outbreak Cost Public Millions of Dollars
The 2019 re-emergence of this vaccine-preventable disease cost a single U.S. county more than $3 million.
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Revenue Cycle Staff Keeps ‘Financial Toxicity’ from Harming Patients
Patients often are left alone to navigate the complex healthcare system, which can cause problems. The most successful financial navigation programs direct healthcare providers and staff to work together to address patients’ needs from the time they enter the system to after discharge.
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Researchers Study the Effects of Intensive Primary Care
A case management-type of model, called primary care intensive management, could provide some limited benefits for more complex patients, research shows. But the research also suggests questions about how population health resources are best spent.
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The Basic Elements of Healthcare Reimbursement — Part 1
Changes in healthcare reimbursement have occurred with lightning speed over the last two decades. Providers billed for services rendered and were reimbursed — with no checks, balances, or control over costs of care. Case management, as a care delivery model, followed a similar course. But as reimbursement changed, so did case management. This month we will begin our discussion of reimbursement, including the changes to case management as it evolved with reimbursement.
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CHECK Program Addresses Chronic Illnesses with a Holistic Approach
A program created to help children and young people, from birth to age 25 years, with chronic illnesses has evolved into a way to prevent emergency department visits and rehospitalizations for any population, including at-risk, older adults.
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Assessing Malpractice Coverage for Improvements
Medical malpractice insurance is a vital part of any risk management program, but it is easy to assume that whatever coverage you have had for a while is adequate. It may not be, and a regular review of your insurance policies is a good way to avoid nasty surprises.
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Expensive Price Tags Keep Patients Away From Certain Neurology Meds
High costs have been connected to poor medication adherence for three common neurologic conditions.
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Pre-Op Kits Improve Health, Reduce HAIs and Readmissions
Indiana University Health is reducing hospital stays by providing patients with a bag of items before surgery that help them “tune up” their health and position them better to ward off hospital-acquired infections.