by Jessica Casebolt | Apr 4, 2023 | M&A, Tea Leaves
Between 2010 and 2018, 17 percent of unprofitable rural hospitals merged with another organization, while 7 percent closed, according to an analysis from Health Affairs using data from 325 unprofitable hospitals. Of the financially unstable hospitals that didn’t close...
by Jessica Casebolt | Apr 4, 2023 | Health IT, Tea Leaves
The homepages of nearly all U.S. hospital websites shared data with third-party trackers in 2021, according to research published Monday in Health Affairs. Of 3,747 hospitals included in the 2019 American Hospital Association (AHA) annual survey, 98.6 percent of their...
by Jessica Casebolt | Apr 4, 2023 | Access & Coverage, Tea Leaves
A report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation shows that inflation and higher health spending contributed to monthly premiums for Affordable Care Act coverage increasing an average of 3.4 percent between 2022 and 2023, reversing a trend of recent declines. Some of...
by Jessica Casebolt | Apr 3, 2023 | Payers, Tea Leaves
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced Friday that it will phase in controversial changes to the Medicare Advantage risk adjustment model over three years. The Biden administration wasn’t persuaded by the insurance industry and other health...
by Jessica Casebolt | Apr 3, 2023 | Access & Coverage, Tea Leaves
The Justice Department on Fridayappealed a federal judge’s decision to invalidate the Affordable Care Act requirement for free coverage of specified preventive health services. The move kicks off a legal process that could wind up at the Supreme Court and has...
by Jessica Casebolt | Mar 31, 2023 | Public Health/Prevention, Tea Leaves
Prescriptions for stimulants used primarily to treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) increased by more than 10 percent during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic as access to the drugs expanded via telehealth opportunities, according to new...
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