According to a report from a CitiBank analyst, hospital admissions are the weakest in a decade, due to a change in the Medicare observation stay rules and confusion over the health care rollout.
Home Care Delivered, a vendor of home medical supplies for diabetes, wound care and other medical needs, has been recapitalized by FNB Capital Partners.
Congress has passed a short term override of the SGR formula implementation for 2014, avoiding a 24% cut in physician payments from Medicare. A longer term fix appears closer than in past years.
Studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine suggest that pharmacogenetics may not provide much assistance in improving dosing and management of blood thinner therapies.
Patient engagement is all the rage but there is not yet good evidence that it helps improve patient safety, according to a survey of research on the topic published in the BMJ Quality & Safety.
According to the Private Exchange Evaluation Collaborative, 45% of employers either are or plan to utilize a private health insurance exchange and an additional 15% would send employees to the public exchanges for health benefits, but there is concern about the stability of these entities.
Wildflower Health, which provides mobile solutions to help health plans engage members and whose first product is a maternity care management tool, has raised an initial round of financing.
Maxwell Health has raised $6 million in financing for its SAAS platform to help manage employee benefits and health plans, bringing its total Series A round to $8 million.
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.