Opinion
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Medicare Advantage is Here To Stay
For the past 30 years, even with the various headwinds over time, consistent winners in MA have adapted and adjusted to new standards required for success. Now is no different. Short-term headwinds are just that – short-term.
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Meaningful Hospital Price Transparency Requires Actual Prices, Not Estimates
Only actual hospital prices, displayed as dollars and cents, not estimates, formulas, or algorithms, protect patients from outrageous bills and hold hospitals accountable for overcharges, errors, and fraud. Accepting CMS’ or other substitutes instead of actual prices undermines broader efforts to make hospital price transparency a reality for American patients and healthcare consumers.
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Discover the Next-Gen Platform for Integrated Collaborative Care
Beyond EHRs and digital front doors, reducing the gaps in patient care journeys.
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An Ounce of Prevention Isn’t Enough To Treat Obesity
If we want to support people with obesity, the weight loss debate must stop conflating obesity prevention with obesity treatment. Instead, we should focus on the tools that best solve the needs of people where they are – just as we would for cancer or diabetes – by making the most effective treatments possible available.
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Integrating Workers’ Comp and Medical Benefits Makes So Much Sense
The current dual-system model is inefficient, wasteful, and inconvenient. There is a clear need to integrate workers’ comp and medical benefits programs to cut down on costs and alleviate the hassle of dealing with separate care silos. It’s possible, and its time has come.
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W-2 Employed Nurses Can Have Choice and Flexibility, Too
As the debate over worker misclassification rages, it’s important that healthcare professionals know the facts. Staffing agencies that designate their nurses as independent contractors avoid the costs of employment-related benefits like insurance, workers’ compensation, and overtime pay. These agencies also lack necessary clinical and professional oversight over their contractors, which increases the risk of substandard care.
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Maintaining the Right To Work as Independent Nursing Professionals Is a Fight for Equality
Staffing agencies are convincing hospitals that it is dangerous to hire nurses like me, telling them that us independent nurses are not equipped to provide quality patient care, and that hiring independent nurses could open the door for legal ramifications.
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Hospitals, MedCity Influencers, Opinion
Op-Ed: CMS Should Fine 30% of Hospitals It has Found to Be Violating Federal Price Transparency Law
As a first step to move toward greater hospital price transparency and lower costs, CMS can immediately issue $2 million fines on the 30% of American hospitals it concludes are noncompliant. If CMS takes enforcement seriously, the hospital industry will respond by quickly coming into compliance.
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Preserve Access to Home Oxygen Therapy Post-Pandemic
CMS should honor its commitment to Medicare beneficiaries, especially those who began home respiratory therapy under the PHE, without requiring them to “restart” the documentation process. Requiring requalification would also be a nightmare for physicians who are already overwhelmed with patient demands.
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Applying Remote Patient Monitoring to Surgery Prep and Recovery, Oncology and Women’s Health
Join us to learn about the latest trends in remote monitoring and how to extend its benefits beyond chronic conditions to more patients – all while using fewer staff resources.
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MedCity Influencers, Policy, Opinion
Growing Nephrology Nursing Workforce Crisis Demands Policy Attention
It is critical for policymakers to work with nephology RNs to increase federal resources that will enable us to address burnout, decrease turnover rates, and build and support a stronger healthcare workforce nationwide.
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MedCity Influencers, Devices & Diagnostics, Opinion
Why We Need a New Category for Safety Devices
Creating a category for technologies like the safety release valve would confer benefits, including improved patient safety, reduced costs for the healthcare system overall, and lowered liability risk.
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Financial Management: The Next Area for Innovation in Serving Seniors
Some financial management service companies have earned the patronage of local governments and prestigious funders, including the National Institutes of Health and AARP. It is time for health plans, particularly MA plans, to pay attention as well.
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MedCity Influencers, Health Tech, Opinion
5 Steps to Delivering Virtual First Care that Will Redefine the Healthcare Value Chain
Virtual first care (V1C) – high-quality healthcare delivered virtually until it cannot be – will allow both new and incumbent providers to achieve success in the redefined value chain.
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Debunking Cloud Cost and ROI Hogwash for Healthcare
The hogwash started in The Wall Street Journal with a contrarian take on a recent KPMG technology report. But cloud operates in a fundamentally different paradigm from the IT infrastructure of the past, and embracing big change is rarely free or easy. But the rewards of evolving are obvious and far too great to ignore.
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MedCity Influencers, Opinion, Legal
Stop cuts to Medicare and preserve access to home health services
The Covid-19 pandemic challenged the U.S. healthcare system like never before—particularly the segment of the […]