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The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel
April 16, 2018
The measure, HB1358, is nearly identical to a proposed ballot measure whose proponents say would end the secrecy in what medical procedures cost, creating a true free-market system in the health care industry. Sen. Kevin Lundberg, R-Berthoud, is sponsoring the bipartisan bill with GOP Rep.
D Magazine
April 16, 2018
Caddis Healthcare Real Estate is making a name for itself in senior housing and as a national acquirer of healthcare real estate. In January, the company closed $78 million in new acquisitions and developments—the biggest month in its history. Caddis, founded in 2007, began developing real estate for Medical EdgeÃâà...
Daily Bruin
April 16, 2018
Ashe Center awarded for commitment to quality of LGBTQ health care services ... The Human Rights Campaign's Healthcare Equality Index has previously listed UCLA as a top performer in LGBTQ healthcare, but on April 2, the survey found UCLA reached a higher level of providing healthcare to LGBTQÃâà...
Mountain Statesman
April 16, 2018
GRAFTON—One local nursing care facility has received a deficiency-free state survey. Taylor Health Care Center (THCC) is owned and operated by American Medical Facilities Management (AMFM). AMFM took over the facility, formally Wallace B. Murphy Nursing Care facility, in December 2017. THCC isÃâà...
Seeking Alpha
April 16, 2018
Omega Healthcare Investors (OHI), for instance, froze its dividend payout after the company reduced its AFFO guidance on the back of operator problems. Senior Housing Properties Trust (SNH) is another health care REIT that came under pressure lately, even though the REIT's dividend appears to be safeÃâà...
centraljersey.com
April 16, 2018
Technological Advances To Invigorate The Global Healthcare Robotics Market: Ken Research. The research report titled, “Healthcare Robotics Market Analysis, By Application (Rehabilitation Robotics, Robotics Surgery), By Region and Segment Forecast, 2014-2025” explores the most lucrative areas inÃâà...
GlobeSt.com
April 16, 2018
HOUSTON—With the aging population precipitating the need for additional healthcare facilities, more investors are finding these types of assets to be stable choices for investment. As a result, Chris Wadley recently joined JLL to head its Houston healthcare practice as a senior vice president. He sharedÃâà...
New York Times
April 16, 2018
If you wanted to get control of your household spending, you'd set a budget and spend no more than it allowed. You might wonder why we don't just do the same for spending on American health care. Though government budgets are different from household budgets, the idea of putting a firm limit onÃâà...
The Denver Post
April 15, 2018
Medicaid, the nation's joint federal-state health insurance program for the poor, is often described as providing a safety net — something to save the neediest people from disaster. But, as health insurance costs spiral rapidly upward, Colorado lawmakers and health care advocates increasingly say that it isÃâà...
Fredericksburg.com
April 1, 2018
In her new book, “An American Sickness—How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take it Back,” Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal, a Harvard-trained internist who worked as a reporter for the New York Times for 22 years, says she has had a “front-row seat” to the “slow-moving heist” that isÃâà...
South China Morning Post
April 1, 2018
Former health minister Dr Ko Wing-man and Hong Kong's richest ophthalmologist Dr Dennis Lam Shun-chiu have offered several recommendations to boost health care services in Beijing's project to foster social and economic integration between Hong Kong, Macau and cities in the Pearl River Delta.
Press Herald
April 1, 2018
Depending on the plan chosen, premiums have increased by about 70 percent or more since 2014 for people who earn too much to qualify for subsidies for the federal health care program. By contrast, ACA enrollees with subsidies have been mostly shielded from rate increases. The lack of a cap onÃâà...
ThinkAdvisor
April 1, 2018
Advocates of pure single-payer health care proposals for the United States are in a stronger position than ever, and those proposals would create a system much different from Medicare Advantage for all. Sally Pipes. president of the Pacific Research Institute, has delivered those messages in her new book,Ãâà...
Tampabay.com
April 1, 2018
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The owner of a Florida pharmacy was sentenced to 13 years in prison for a health care kickback scheme. U.S. Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez of the Middle District of Florida on Friday said 53-year-old Larry Howard was sentenced on Friday and ordered to pay $4.3 million in restitutionÃâà...
HealthLeaders Media
April 1, 2018
Several sizeable healthcare mergers have been announced over the past year. Dignity Health and Catholic Health Initiatives signed a definitive agreement as 2017 closed. Chicago-based Advocate Health Care plans to merge with Milwaukee's Aurora Health Care. Even Seattle's Providence St. JosephÃâà...
Chippewa Herald
March 31, 2018
She is a client of Chippewa County's home health care services, and the blood test is just one facet of her care on her way to recovering from a bad fall this winter. As one of five county-offered services left in the Wisconsin, home health care has been offering Chippewa County residents the opportunity toÃâà...
The Daily Herald
March 31, 2018
Until very recently, our country's health care insurance system was largely employer-based. And the price-sensitivity of this system was reduced because, in effect, Uncle Sam was paying for half of any cost increase. Unlike individuals, employers can deduct the premiums from their taxable income.
U.S. News & World Report
March 31, 2018
A review of jail records found that on average health care was sought multiple times each week within federally funded jails on reservations. ... She helped form the Arizona Tribal Correctional Healthcare Coalition, an ad-hoc committee of tribal jail and hospital administrators, in response to the situation.
Yahoo Finance
March 31, 2018
Inc. is in talks with health insurer Inc. for a closer partnership to provide health care to consumers at home and prevent illness, according to a person familiar with the matter. Health-care spending accounted for about 18 percent of the U.S. economy last year, and continues to surge with an aging population,Ãâà...
Greensburg Daily News
March 31, 2018
Since then, nine hospital or health care systems in Indiana have signed on to offer services at rates that are sometimes discounted up to 60 percent. Russell said the discounts Deaconess has started offering through MDsave to consumers with high-deductible plans are similar to discounts the hospital isÃâà...
KMSP-TV
March 31, 2018
NEW HOPE, Minn. (KMSP) - President Donald Trump granted a one-year extension to the program allowing Liberians to stay in the U.S., but the potential mass deportations next year could have major implications for the health care industry. Thousands of Liberians in Minnesota work in the health careÃâà...
Delmarva Daily Times
March 30, 2018
The Maryland Legislature is working to enact a number of crucial bills that would counteract health care policy changes at the federal level. ... 21, lawmakers, advocates and healthcare consumers gathered to push for this legislative package to progress in order to protect the state financially and maintainÃâà...
Health Data Management
March 30, 2018
Healthcare is in the midst of a dramatic shift, as new players surge into the business of health. The latest step in this evolution came Friday, with reports that Walmart is in discussions to partner with—or perhaps even acquire—Humana, one of the nation's largest insurers.
Crain's Detroit Business
March 29, 2018
The health care industry in Michigan accounts for a large chunk of the state's economy with $58 billion in wages and benefits that contributed nearly 603,000 direct jobs in 2016, the largest number of jobs in any sector, according to a new economic report from the Partnership for Michigan's Health.
Health IT Analytics
March 29, 2018
March 29, 2018 - The healthcare industry has innumerable opportunities to leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning in pursuit of more accurate, proactive, and comprehensive patient care. From reducing administrative burdens to supporting precision medicine, AI is showing promise acrossÃâà...
Vox
March 29, 2018
Ashish Jha is a health care professor at Harvard. And there's this thing he used to say when he gave talks, a thing he thought was definitely true about the American health care system. ”I have probably said in more than a dozen talks that our health care system is much more specialty care-driven, whereasÃâà...
Singularity Hub
March 29, 2018
In an interview at Singularity University's Exponential Medicine in San Diego, Neil Jacobstein shared some groundbreaking developments in artificial intelligence for healthcare. Jacobstein is Singularity University's faculty chair in AI and robotics, a distinguished visiting scholar at Stanford University'sÃâà...
NTV
March 29, 2018
Merv Riepe of Ralston says direct primary care strengthens relationships between doctors and clients and provides practical health care. The pilot program would allow patients to pay one recurring fee for a variety of primary care visits. They also could purchase additional insurance to pay for other services. The bill wouldÃâà...
CNBC
March 29, 2018
"Mad Money" host Jim Cramer sits down with UnitedHealth Group CEO David Wichmann at CNBC's Healthy Returns conference to discuss the health-care giant's prospects. Wichmann shares his outlook on the health-care industry as a whole and speaks to what he would do if he ran the U.S. health-careÃâà...
Axios
March 29, 2018
It shows that, back in 1976, our disco-dancing ancestors paid a way bigger share of own their health care costs than we do today. Between the lines: If you're wondering how that can be true, we've got some thoughts from Matthew Fiedler of the Brookings Institution, and the MedPAC report has some clues too. The basicÃâà...
Harvard Business Review
March 28, 2018
Over the past year, the healthcare industry found itself under constant attack. Cybercriminals targeted vulnerable clinical networks and poor controls to gain privileged access to medical devices and databases on an almost daily basis. Consider that in just the first two months of 2018, 24 health care providerÃâà...
cleveland.com
March 27, 2018
Nerpouni said the initiative will receive input from the Global Center's tenants, including the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society.He added that the initiative is part of the center's new focus of participating in solving health-care issues. According to BioEnterprise, those attending theÃâà...
ABC News
March 27, 2018
A new study has revealed that health care providers may be failing to routinely offer the HPV vaccine to boys, potentially putting them at risk of cancer later in life. Infection with human papillomavirus (HPV) is associated with cervical, vaginal, anal, mouth and throat cancers. The U.S. Centers for DiseaseÃâà...
Healthcare IT News
March 27, 2018
Just about everyone paying attention in healthcare is wondering exactly what Amazon has up its sleeve. After inking an alliance with JP Morgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway in late January, then expanding into the Medicaid market to take on retail rival Walmart, the Seattle giant appears to be amassingÃâà...
Capital Public Radio News
March 27, 2018
Hospital mergers—and the effect of those mergers on medical costs—have caught the eye of California elected officials. A new report from the UC Berkeley Petris Center on Health Care Markets finds a rapid consolidation of health insurance and care providers in the state has raised prices, as it'sÃâà...
Rhode Island Public Radio
March 27, 2018
A recent SEC filing signals a haste to reform how and where people buy not just medicine, but healthcare in general. In the pharmaceutical business there are companies called PBMs, or prescription benefit managers. They are essentially the middlemen who decide which drugs your health insuranceÃâà...
Next Avenue
March 27, 2018
Health care prices are much easier to get and compare in many other countries, according to experts at the recent West Health Institute 2018 Healthcare Costs Innovation Summit in Washington, D.C., that Next Avenue reporter Holly Lawrence covered. “There are prices on walls in doctors' offices in France.
Healthcare Finance News
March 27, 2018
The survey of more than 1,300 adults offers some insight into how Americans face the costs of healthcare and how those expenses affect their medical decisions and personal finances. While $3.3 trillion was spent on healthcare in the U.S. in 2016 -- 17.9 percent of gross domestic product -- the poll foundÃâà...
Lynchburg News and Advance
March 27, 2018
“I spent a large part of last year traveling Virginia to hear people's concerns, and health care was at the top of folks' mind. I am confident that given the opportunity to implement Medicaid expansion, the combination of Dan and Ralph's distinguished careers as physicians will serve Virginia well,” he said inÃâà...
Newsweek
March 27, 2018
Americans are more concerned about health care than they are about terrorism, according to a poll released on Monday. The Gallup survey rated health care as the top concern among Americans, with 55 percent of respondents noting they were “a great deal” concerned about the availability andÃâà...
San Francisco Chronicle
March 27, 2018
Northern California's health care markets are “considerably more concentrated” than Southern California's, according to the report, which was compiled by UC Berkeley's Petris Center on Health Care Markets and Consumer Welfare. On average, prices for inpatient care are 70 percent higher in NorthernÃâà...
Futurism
March 27, 2018
Unlike some other Twitter-loving tech CEOs we know, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos likes to keep his company's plans fairly quiet. Some even call Amazon “secretive.” Bezos disagrees with that label, though. In 2014, he told shareholders he thinks “quiet” is more accurate: “Our primary approach is, we talkÃâà...
YubaNet
March 27, 2018
At the state level, virtually every state has healthcare-specific religious refusal laws allowing medical providers to refuse to perform certain procedures or to prescribe or dispense medications, and more states are considering these types of health care-specific religious refusal laws. The growing number ofÃâà...
Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman
March 25, 2018
House Bill 312 will escalate assaults on healthcare workers in a hospital setting to a felony. Currently, police cannot arrest a perpetrator in a hospital setting because the assaults are categorized as a misdemeanor. Similar to domestic violence calls, HB 312 gives police the ability to arrest a perpetrator onÃâà...
Madison.com
March 25, 2018
Healthcare is a major burden for Americans of all ages. From health insurance premiums to doctor and emergency room visits to prescription costs, the price of medical care has skyrocketed over the years, and workers and retirees alike are feeling the pain. Case in point: A good 25% of U.S. adults struggleÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 25, 2018
Maine would preserve protections under former President Obama's health care law under legislation vetoed by Republican Gov. ... The House and Senate this week also overrode LePage's veto of a law requiring health insurance companies to pay for health care provided by licensed naturopaths.
The Hill
March 25, 2018
After years of being on their own when it came to “shopping” for and affording quality health care, the ACA meant Main Street business owners and their employees could finally reap some of the benefits of being part of a larger insurance pool like their corporate competitors, including being less vulnerableÃâà...
Montana Standard
March 25, 2018
From left, Kevin Dennehy, St. James Healthcare vice president for strategy and business development and a St. James Healthcare Foundation board member; Kacie Bartholomew, the foundation's development and events coordinator; Michele Steele, the foundation's development specialist; Dr. JamesÃâà...
Scranton Times-Tribune
March 25, 2018
After weighing a number of options over the last seven or eight years, 15 physician partners finally settled on the Marketplace for the same reasons health systems around the nation are reviving dead retail space. Both industries are going through dramatic changes and health care is finding opportunity inÃâà...
Chattanooga Times Free Press
March 25, 2018
Staff photo by Tim Barber Cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Larry Shears, right, and Dr. Philip Smith, a trauma and critical care surgeon, talk about the life-saving ECMO machine that was used at Erlanger Health System during the flu season of 2017-2018. The ECMO oxygenates blood and serves as an externalÃâà...
