News Articles and Studies

News Articles

Studies & Reports

• Major teaching hospitals produce lower mortality rates than non-teaching hospitals (Fierce Health)

• Summary Article on Study Results (JAMA)

• Managed Care Programs Improve Care, Reduce Costs (Home Healthcare News)

• Survey Details

• FDA Approves Three Immunotherapy Drugs for Patients with Bladder Cancer (NIH)

• Skin cancer on the rise (Mayo Clinic)

• Full Text of Study Article (Mayo Proceedings)

• Surgery won’t help degenerative knee problems, experts say (Reuters)

• Full Text of Study Article (BMJ)

• Heart failure patients readmitted to same hospital may fare better (Heart Association)

Full Text of Study Article(JAHA)

• GAO Releases Report Addressing Post-Acute Care EHR Adoption (HIMSS)

• Study shows health insurance plans too complicated to understand (Insurance News)

• Annual Update of the National Health Security Preparedness Index: Preparedness Index assesses all 50 states & District of Columbia for health security and preparedness

• Study shows health insurance plans too complicated to understand (Insurance News)

• Rand Study: Direct-to-consumer telehealth may drive up medical spending by encouraging new care (EurekaAlert!)  

• Health insurers try paying more upfront to pay less later (FierceHealth)
• Medicaid discontinuity leads to higher costs, hospital use in depression (Healio: Psychiatric Annals)
• SEER-Medicare Database Analysis Notes Higher Resource Utilization Among Patients With Neuroendocrine Tumors (AJMC)
• What is outpatient observation status? (Auburn Pub)
• Hospital Stocks Slide (Bloomberg)
• 5 trends in cervical spine surgery cost, utilization (Beckers)
• Health care fraud: The hot new legal practice? (Crains)
• Top 10 Most Expensive Chronic Diseases for Healthcare Payers (HealthPayers)
• The Facts on Medicare Spending and Financing (Kaiser)
• Medicare Study: Inpatient Setting More Cost-Effective than SNFs (HealthLeaders)
• Healthcare Costs Up 47.2% Despite Little Change in Utilization (RevCycle)
• Improving ICU care and communication through technology use (Bioengineer)
• Medicaid 'churning' leads to increased acute care use for patients with major depression (EurekaAlert)
• Threats to Information Security — Public Health Implications (NEJM Perspectives)
• Investing more in inpatient care relative to longer-term nursing facilities reduces mortality rates (MedXpress)
• HealthSouth Corporation Announces Planned Name Change to Encompass Health Corporation (NASDAQ)
• Hospitals that spend more initially yield better outcomes (ScienceDaily)
• EHR use interrupts doctor-patient connection (HealthDataManagement)
• Fact check: Deaths from a health care bill? (Courier-Post)
• Mortality Increases With Emergency Surgery Delays (Medscape)
• Senate Health Insurance Bill Could Both Boost And Cut Mental Health Funding (NPR)
• The cost of care: new insights into healthcare spending growth (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)
• Can Health Care Be “Built to Order?” — Making the Shift Toward Customized Care (NEJM Catalyst)
• Medicaid’s Role in Nursing Home Care (KHN)
• Related: AARP: States Lag in Keeping Medicaid Enrollees Out of Nursing Homes (US News/KHN)
• Mount Sinai Hospital to end pediatric trauma, inpatient services (Chicago Tribune)
• 96% of Healthcare Execs Report Rise in Inpatient Drug Spending (RevCycle)
•  See more at: https://revcycleintelligence.com/news/96-of-healthcare-execs-report-rise-in-inpatient-drug-spending#sthash.S1wUB4Ti.dpuf
• Plan to privatize Michigan mental health aid advances (Detroit News)
• Florida governor signs law that will change nursing home reimbursement (McKnights)
• Risk, benefit or cost: What stops patients from receiving a diagnostic test? (Bioengineer.org)
• Hospitalists and cost control in the U.S. health care system (The Hospitalist)
• Opinion: Nursing Home Certificate-Of-Need Laws Should Be Repealed (McKnights)
• Clinical Pathways: Paving the Way to Improve Patient-Centered and Cohesive Cancer Care (Oncology Nurse Advisor)
• Many COPD Patients Struggle To Pay For Each Medicinal Breath (KHN)
• Brown Gets $1.1M to Study Medicare Post-Discharge Care Quality (HealthAnalytics)
• Hospitals Vary in Moving Stroke Patients to Comfort or Hospice Care (US News)
• Influx Of Elderly Patients Forces ER To Practice Comfort Care (KHN)
• Opinion: Healthy networks: The critical link for healthcare access (Health IT)
• Frailer patients at much greater risk of institutional care and death after discharge from hospital (EurekaAlert)
• How U.S. Health Care Got Safer by Focusing on the Patient Experience (Harvard Business Review)
• Aging population, uptick in number of retiring professionals stress health care industry (Tribune Review)
• Stem Cell Transplant Patients Benefit From Inpatient Palliative Care (Oncology Nurse)
• Suicide risk higher for patients after discharge from psychiatric care (UPI)
• CME/CE: Outcomes After ED Discharge of the Elderly (Physicians Weekly)
• Patient-centric approach yields same-day discharge after knee, hip replacements (Fierce Health)
• Study finds huge mark-ups on hospital ER charges (Consumer Affairs)
• Municipalities Grapple With Whether Nursing Homes Should Be Taxpayer-Funded (WSJ)
• Congress May Open The Door To Some Medicare Long-Term Care (Forbes)
• New Approach Helps Health Information Exchanges Cross State Lines (Health IT)
• Medicare Advantage patients less likely to use post-acute care (Beckers)
• Emergency Room doctors say insurance companies are gouging patients (KBTX)Imaging use plunges as coding, reimbursement tightens up (Modern Healthcare)
• Hospitals Maintain Test Use Despite Healthcare Price Transparency (RevCycle)
• FY 2018 inpatient PPS proposed rule (AHA News)

 Urgent Care: Is It Worth the No Wait? (Healthy Children Org)  

• Study shows health insurance plans too complicated to understand (Insurance News)
• Health Security Gets Check-Up: How Prepared is Texas for Next Emergency? (TWSpectrum News)
• County exec moves to take control of Harford's emergency medical system (Baltimore Sun)
• Palliative care linked to fewer repeat hospitalizations (Reuters)
• Electronic health records improve weekend surgery outcomes (MedExpress)
• Discharge Events Improved With Standardized Inpatient Palliative Care Consultation (Oncology Nurse Advisor)
• Higher physician spending not associated with lower admission rates (HealthcareDive)
• Putting the Cancer Patient Front and Center: An Interview with NCI’s Dr. Paul Jacobsen (cancer.gov)
• Researchers to develop 'wearable' robotic tools for surgery (Science Daily)
• FDA OKs new Novartis drug for type of advanced breast cancer (FOX Health)

 Few people know about overlapping surgery (Reuters)

• CMS Issues Instructions to Hospitals Regarding the Implementation of Ruling 1498-R2 (calculation of the Medicare fraction of the disproportionate share hospital) (JDSupra)
• Gov. Terry Branstad Pushed Certificate of Need Reform; Iowa Hospitals Killed It (Reason.com)