According to a study in the American Economics Journal, more experienced nurses are more productive and lead to shorter lengths-of-stay for patients, indicating the value of retaining nurses and teams of caregivers.
Rite Aid is on a tear. The formerly struggling drug store chain, which just bought Health Dialog, is now buying RediClinic, which operates retail clinics in Texas.
iKang Healthcare Group has gone public on NASDAQ, which seems a little unusual only because the company operates clinics in China. The company raised over $100 million to continue expansion.
According to Rock Health, $700 million was invested in mhealth companies, broadly defined, in the first three months of 2014, up sharply from the same period last year.
Omada, which says it is in the business of "digital therapeutics" (I am not laughing) has raised $23 million (now I am) for its software and apps (what else could it be) that will help patients with chronic illnesses achieve better outcomes.
Premier, the large hospital group purchasing organization, has acquired Memdata, which aids hospitals in construction and capital equipment purchasing.
The Wall Street Journal has the first of what undoubtedly will be many analyses of what Medicare pays to physicians, finding that a few specialists receive astounding amounts of Medicare payments. About 1% of doctors receive 14% of all payments and a number receive multi-millions a year from the program.
The HHS Office of Inspector General issued a report finding that CMS did not do a good job of detecting inappropriate coding on visits to hospital outpatient clinics.
According to an article in the Fiscal Times based on a Morgan Stanley survey of brokers, small group and individual health insurance policies sold outside the insurance exchanges are seeing the largest premium increases in the history of the survey.
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.