In medicine, it seems there is a side effect for every treatment. The Affordable Care Act (ACA), or Obamacare, which was signed into law in 2010, is no exception. The purpose of the ACA was to make healthcare more accessible to more people by, among...
Information is power, right? Sure. Except when it’s a source of confusion. That’s the emerging — if very early — story so far with the new requirement that kicked in Jan. 1 that hospitals post their prices online. The sharing of that information comes amid the...
Health care is changing, and patients are footing an ever larger portion of the bill. That makes for an onerous debt burden at times - and providers are scrambling to collect on the bills. John Talaga, CEO of Flywire's OnPlan, discusses how tech can be...
On the surface, the idea seems deeply pragmatic — a thought that comes straight from the storied intellectual school of “well, duh!” and a tradition that reveres Captain Obvious as the paragon of philosophical truth. Yes, it seems very smart to use fitness trackers, such as...
Healthcare is proving a greenfield opportunity to big tech firms like Amazon and Apple, and retailers like Walmart. Here's why the Hippocratic Oath is likely to be, increasingly, rendered in bits and bytes.
As the world — and the world of payment and commerce — ready themselves for the deployment of 5G mobile technology, the healthcare industry is anticipating the likely changes, some of which will involve wearables and billing. Over the next three years or so, 5G...
Digital technology and the data that consumers are willing to provide are giving insurance agents a closer look at the day-to-day habits of individuals, with premiums and policies ideally being adjusted to better reflect risks. Among the most promising areas for this new world of...
There are few participants in the American healthcare system that offer rave reviews of its payment process. Providers (doctors, hospitals, etc.), payers (insurance companies) and members (patients) all offer different perspectives on what’s really wrong – but all agree that if healthcare payments was a patient, it would be...
Leavitt Partners, Facing Addiction with NCADD (The National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence) and Remedy Partners, along with other leading healthcare companies, announced last week they have launched the Addiction Recovery Medical Home (ARMH) model, an Alternative Payment Model (APM) designed to provide patients...
