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.
A KFF analysis finds that over half the country's hospitals will be penalized under CMS's patently flawed hospital readmissions reduction policy, which the agency has stubbornly refused to fix or enough acknowledge is very, very poorly designed. Most of the hospitals that won't be penalized are exempt from being evaluated.
According to an analysis by Modern Healthcare, non-profit health system executives continue to get extremely high compensation packages, many multi-million dollars, which has to make you wonder what the point of non-profit status is.
Public health system consulting and IT firm Advisory Board is buying Zeumo, which offers a communication system for hospitals and their affiliated physicians and staff.
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.