The Plain Community: Meeting a Unique Consumer Healthcare Challenge
Jeff Goldsmith, John Porter, and Maria Royce describe one health system’s effective solution for addressing the healthcare needs of a religious community whose belief systems prevent them from accessing care via common, mainstream approaches.
Congress Weighs Actions to Curb Hospital M&A
Congress is discussing a variety of ways to reduce mergers and acquisitions (M&A) among providers, including allowing more enforcement against not-for-profit entities, increasing funding of enforcement agencies, and eliminating payment incentives.
Trump Administration’s ACA Replacement Bill Pushed to Post-Election
The Trump Administration has shifted its stance on the Texas court case challenging the Affordable Care Act (ACA) now before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
What Healthcare Innovations Are Drawing Investors?
Two major investment funds are increasing their funding of healthcare initiatives—with important caveats.
Health Care Finding Success, Challenges in Consumerism
Providers and health plans have found some success—and identified new challenges—in their efforts to better engage patients as consumers who are willing to choose care based on price and quality.
Data Shows Executives’ Main Concern Is New Entrants Disrupting Healthcare Status Quo
What patient pain points are driving them to alternative providers.
Moving to the Next Generation of SDOH Initiatives
Efforts to address social factors that affect health are moving from the experimental phase to the operational phase in Medicaid, according to a former federal leader of the program.
Medicaid Work Requirements Impact Hospital Finances: Report
As many as 17 states could eventually have Medicaid work requirements, which may cut into the finances of hospitals in those states, according to a new analysis.