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NewsWill ACOs show financial returns?
Despite projected goals of saving $400 million in three years of Shared Savings and $1.1 billion in five years for the Pioneer Program, accountable care organizations (ACO) encounter skeptics on Read more...
Hospital must slash budget by $3 million
The biggest challenge for Tucson Medical Center is to cut the costs of care, President and CEO Judy Rich told Kaiser Health News. One big reason for the belt-tightening will be the 1.3 percent Read more...
Study: Cardiac MRI scans could cut costs by $600 per patient
Hospitals could save nearly $600 per patient if they took a different approach to patients with chest pain in the ER, according to a study published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine. Instead of Read more...
Medicare Advantage plans don't save over traditional Medicare, report says
The idea behind Medicare Advantage plans--in which the government pays private healthcare organizations a fee to manage care for Medicare beneficiaries--was that managed care groups might be able to Read more...
Study: Bariatric surgery repays cost within two to four years
Though it typically costs between $17,000 and $26,000, gastric bypass surgery's costs are typically offset within two to four years by saving on other forms of medical care, according to a new Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: States collect unused drugs to give away
Hoping to cut their costs, a growing number of states are kicking off programs that collect unused prescription drugs to give away to the uninsured and poor. In fact, at least 33 states have laws on Read more...
| Press ReleasesHosted Technology Exchange Welcomes Akron GeneralHUDSON, Ohio, Dec. 12, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Akron General Medical Center has joined managed technology cooperative Hosted Technology Exchange to take advantage of increased communications capability Read more >> |
