Alignment Healthcare is purchasing Citizen's Choice, a Medicare Advantage plan in California, which marks an interesting change of direction for Alignment.
ESO Solutions, a provider of software to the emergency EHR segment, has acquired JefBar Billing, which provides revenue cycle management software and services to the same segment.
Ybrain? Y not? Ybrain has raised $3.5 million for its wearable device for alzheimer's patients that stimulates brain activity. The investors might want to use the device.
A Kaiser Family Foundation analysis finds what it calls "modest" premium increases in 15 exchange states and finds that the premiums for the second-lowest silver plan will have very slight changes, meaning that subsidies payments will likely be reduced.
A study of 30 primary care physician practices, published in JAMIA, finds that implementation of an EHR was associated with lower productivity through seeing less patients, but also with higher revenue, because more services, primarily procedures and tests. This may lead to an increase in ROI for an EHR but also implies they are associated with higher health spending.
The Healthy Skeptic is a website about the health care system, and is written by Kevin Roche, who has many years of experience working in the health industry. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements through Roche Consulting, LLC and may be reached at khroche@healthy-skeptic.com.
The Healthy Skeptic is a website about the health care system, and is written by Kevin Roche, who has many years of experience working in the health industry. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements through Roche Consulting, LLC and may be reached at khroche@healthy-skeptic.com.