Since the first group purchasing organization was established in 1910 by the Hospital Bureau of New York, GPOs have been pioneering healthcare cost reduction strategies for several decades. Finding power in numbers, GPOs leverage contracts based on members' purchasing ability…
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Workforce reduction, downsizing, streamlining, or as Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella explained in a now-notorious memo to employees last week "the first step to building the right organization for our ambitions is to realign our workforce," all describe what most Americans…
A decade ago, it was rare to find healthcare administrators and physicians solving problems collaboratively. A combination of mutual respect and misunderstanding kept these experts far apart. There was often good intent behind this siloed approach — administrators didn't want…
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has made a direct impact on the percentage of people without health insurance in America, with the uninsured rate falling by 5 percent since the PPACA's rollout.
In Dallas, a patient can pay up to 23 times more than necessary for a lipid panel, according to a recent study by Castlight Health, a leading provider of enterprise healthcare cloud software.
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Healthcare merger and acquisition spending jumped to $135.2 billion during the second quarter of this year, a 152 percent increase from $53.6 billion during the second quarter of 2013, according to an Irving Levin Associates report.
CMS recently released proposed Medicare reimbursement rates for 2015 will likely have a largely positive impact on healthcare providers, according to a report from Moody's Investors Service.
The House intends to file a lawsuit against President Barack Obama that is expected to be narrowly focused on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the president's decision to defer the PPACA's requirement that employers provide health insurance…
More than 9 million people have gained insurance coverage under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. However, due to a number of challenges, the number of insured may begin to decrease, as some people cancel or forgo renewing coverage…
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