Keyword: Ashish K. Jha

Overall care costs were similar or lower at teaching hospitals versus non-teaching hospitals for Medicare beneficiaries undergoing common procedures.

More plans on the ACA insurance exchange markets offer restrictive networks, putting patients at a higher risk of receiving surprise medical bills.

Doctors and teaching hospitals received $8.4 billion in payments from drug companies in 2017 and more physician practice news.

Calling surprise billing "unethical" and an "outrage," Harvard researcher Ashish Jha, M.D., told lawmakers congressional action is necessary.

Health policy experts blamed hospital consolidation and a lack of price transparency as some of the key drivers of ballooning healthcare costs.

Common explanations as to why healthcare costs are so high may be wrong, a new study finds.

Though the Joint Commission is the accrediting organization for a vast majority of U.S. hospitals, it rarely revokes that accreditation.

A study that compares EHR adoption rates before and after the HITECH Act supports the argument that Meaningful Use helped digitize hospital records.

From Kaiser Health News: Federal records show that 2,573 hospitals around the country will have their Medicare payments reduced because they have too many patients readmitted.

Patients at major teaching hospitals experience better 30-day mortality rates for common conditions than those at non-teaching hospitals, according to a new study.