According to research published in JAMA Surgery, more than 80% of the cause for readmissions for 8 surgical admissions was due to patient factors, further showing the poor design of the CMS program. Hospitals can adjust when the known patient factors are present, but just making up a readmission rate a hospital should have totally fails to correct for the individual patient factors.
Large group purchasing firm Premier continues its diversification push, with another software acquisition, buying health care financial management analytics firm Healthcare Insights for $65 million.
Not sure what to think of this slightly obscene name, but provider administrative software vendor PokitDok has poked investors for a fresh $34 million round of capital.
According to the Centers for Disease Control, in 2013 about 8.5% of primary care physicians were not accepting any new patients; 19% were not accepting privately insured; 28% not taking Medicare and 35% not Medicaid.
Florida True Health, a joint venture between the Florida Blue Cross plan and AmeriHealth Caritas, has agreed to acquired Prestige Health Choice, a Medicaid plan.
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.