Fewer People Skipping Care for Financial Reasons
Fewer Americans are choosing not to pursue medical care for [...]
Homeless Health Care Costs Driven More by Hospital Stays Than ER Visits
Extended hospital stays and not frequent visits to hospital emergency [...]
Bill Proposes Risk-Adjusting Medicare Readmissions Program
A new bill introduced in the House Ways and Means [...]
Socio-Economic Factors Leading Cause in Pediatric Asthma Readmissions
African-American children suffering from asthma are readmitted to hospitals more [...]
Covered by Medicare But Underinsured
Nearly a quarter of the country’s 50 million Medicare beneficiaries [...]
Data-Sharing Could Help Address “High-Fliers”
A new study suggests that hospitals might better serve frequent [...]
Could Housing Support Help Medicaid Behavioral Health Patients?
Amid indications that assisting with permanent supportive housing can be [...]
Readmissions Reduction Target Too High?
Medicare’s goal of reducing hospital readmissions 20 percent – a [...]
Hospitals Turn to Community Health Workers to Prevent Readmissions
It’s a new twist on an old concept: employ peers [...]
Safety Net Still Needed, Study Finds
Despite Affordable Care Act policies that have enabled millions of [...]
