Jan 31 2015

Outstanding journalist Megan McArdle gives a great explanation of why our current system of health care quality measurement and improvement is pretty much worthless.

http://www.pcpcc.org/resource/patient-centered-medical-homes-impact-cost-and-quality
Jan 29 2015

Advance Health, the vendor of in-home Medicare risk assessments and care management services, has gotten an additional $40 million in growth capital.

https://www.pehub.com/2015/01/advance-health-attracts-40-mln/
Jan 28 2015

Contrary to what would be expected a new piece of research finds that having more insurers compete one of the reform exchanges results in higher, not lower, premiums, but the likely explanation is that there are more insurers offering plans in urban areas which also have higher medical costs.

http://f1000research.com/articles/4-25/v1
Jan 28 2015

Health insurance exchanges that basically allow any insurer meeting certain standards to sell end up with lower prices than those that try to actively negotiate with plans, according to research in Health Affairs, proving once again the ineptitude of bureaucrats who think they know best.

http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/34/1/161.abstract
Jan 28 2015

Xenex has gathered $25 million in new investment to build robots that use ultraviolet light to fight hospital-acquired infections.

http://medcitynews.com/2015/01/xenex/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=8395896c69-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-8395896c69-67648197
Jan 27 2015

A study in Health Affairs finds that mandating dependent coverage for children up to age 26 increased the insured status of younger trauma patients but did not lessen their mortality rate.

http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/34/1/125.abstract
Jan 27 2015

Cigna is buying QualCare, a health plan in New Jersey owned primarily by hospital systems.

http://www.streetinsider.com/Corporate+News/Cigna+Corp.+(CI)+to+Acquire+New+Jersey-Based+QualCare+Alliance+Networks/10192863.html
Jan 27 2015

Huron Consulting, the very large operational consulting firm, is expanding its health care line of business by acquiring the Studer Group, which does management consulting for health systems, for a whopping $325 million.

http://ir.huronconsultinggroup.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=180006&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=2010739
Jan 27 2015

Humana reports that providers who are at risk in its MA program have better quality and cost outcomes that those that have more traditional reimbursement.

http://aishealth.com/archive/nman012215-04?utm_source=Real%20Magnet&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=64971982
Jan 27 2015

Crossover Health, a provider of onsite clinics for employers, has received $15 million in new investment for the expansion of its business.

https://www.pehub.com/2015/01/norwest-backs-crossover-health/
Jan 27 2015

Iora Health, which operates primary care clinics, has raised $28 million.

http://medcitynews.com/2015/01/iona-health/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=691c581f90-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-691c581f90-67677117
Jan 27 2015

MedPAC has expressed again its serious concern about the CMS approach to quality reporting, which it views as having an excessive number of measures which are burdensome to report on and often have to little to do with actual meaningful outcomes.

http://www.medpac.gov/documents/comment-letters/medpac-comment-on-the-cms-list-of-measures-under-consideration-for-december-1-2014.pdf?sfvrsn=0
Jan 26 2015

Adreima, a health care revenue cycle management provider, has acquired HealthCPA, a vendor of technology to help patients understand their bills.

http://www.earlysense.com/news-and-events/news/jan-20-2015/
Jan 26 2015

EarlySense, a contactless monitoring company, has raised $20 million in capital.

http://www.earlysense.com/news-and-events/news/jan-20-2015/
Jan 26 2015

Human API, which gathers and shares health data among providers and patients, has raised $6.6 million in fresh capital.

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/humanapi