He begins his role at Maricopa Integrated Health System August 12 after serving as chief academic officer at CHI Health in Omaha Nebraska, a non-profit, faith-based health system that provides services in 18 states through 101 hospitals - including...
Public health groups and stakeholders are concerned that many healthcare related priorities are being left out of the budget in Arizona. This includes funding of Graduate Medical Education (GME). State Senator Heather Carter has proposed two bills that address GME. Both have passed in the Senate, but have not progressed through the...
In Charlotte, North Carolina, the insurer Cardinal Innovations Healthcare helped rehouse patients in independent living, provided housing subsidies, moving assistance and other services to help Medicaid members find housing.
Cardinal's Transitions to Community Living Initiative (TCLI) targets high need Medicaid patients including...
Join Arizona healthcare leaders in Tucson, Phoenix or Flagstaff for our summer meeting complete with guest speakers on the hottest trends in Arizona healthcare along with data updates for commercial, Medicare, AHCCCS, Exchange and ACO markets.
2019 Summer State of the State
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has finalized a rule intended to make prices more transparent with Medicare Part D drug plans and allow plan sponsors to use cost-cutting tools such as step therapy under certain circumstances.
"CMS is delivering on price transparency, because patients have a right to know the cost of...
The Leapfrog Group has assigned letter grades to hospitals based on their patient safety performance twice annually since spring 2012.
Arizona ranks No. 34 in the nation on the Leapfrog Group's hospital safety report card. The Leapfrog Group is a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit representing the nation's largest and most influential...
As the Parsons v. Ryan lawsuit continues, letters have been submitted to the court that detail improper healthcare for pregnant women and services for disabled inmates. Corizon also recently settled an EEOC case alleging it refused to accommodate employees with disabilities who exhausted their leave under Corizon's 30-day medical leave...
According to the U.S. Equal Opportunity Commission, Carondelet Health Network and Ascension Health refused to provide reasonable accommodations such as extended leave, reassignment, or assistive devices to employees with disabilities.
The cost of the settlement was $545,000 and compensates six employees impacted by the...
The largest health insurer in the state was honored by IBM Watson Health with 2019 Advantage Award for breaking new ground in the use of data and analytics to improve the quality, effectiveness and affordability of healthcare and social programs.
According to Health Data Management, Blue Cross of Idaho has used an episodes of care...
The second annual State of Health Insurance report from Pacific Prime now includes sections on trends now seen in the global insurance market around the world; includes a trends watch from global insurance leaders including Aetna, Bupa Global and Cigna.
Get a quick look at the state of international health insurance for businesses and...
About 600 employees already working for EVDI and VR will transition to become Banner Imaging employees under this new agreement.
In 2017, the physicians that own Scottsdale Medical Imaging, Limited (SMIL), Valley Radiologists (VR), East Valley Diagnostic Imaging (EVDI), and Sun City Imaging (SCI) sold/ traded their practices to...
University of Arizona in Phoenix researchers received a $766,000 grant to develop alerts within an EHR system that notify physicians when a prescription drug may put a patient at risk of cardiac arrhythmia.
As many as two-thirds of elderly patients admitted to acute-care settings are exposed to multiple medications known to interfere...
It's the second consecutive year the uninsured rate has risen after several years of declines under the Affordable Care Act, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey shows.
Efforts by the Trump administration and Congress to challenge and loosen requirements of the Affordable Care Act probably played a role in some going...
Across the nation, hospitals treating patients with private health insurance were paid overall 2.4 times the Medicare rates in 2017, according to the RAND analysis. The difference was largest for outpatient care, where private prices were almost triple what Medicare would have paid. The study illustrates the widening chasm between what...
According to a recent article in Lancet, the gross inequalities in health seen within and between countries present a challenge to the world. That there should be a spread of life expectancy of 48 years among countries and 20 years or more within countries is not inevitable.A growing volume of research identifies social factors at the...
When a large national employer removed cost sharing for primary care visits, medical utilization fell, as did monthly costs, driven mostly by reduced emergency department (ED) visits, according to research findings from a study published May 10 in the American Journal of Managed Care.
Findings in a nutshell: The removal of cost...
Need a blood test? If you have a Maricopa County zip code, Sonora Quest Laboratories (SQL) will come to you; Flagstaff, Prescott and Tucson residents may see the service come online in their neighborhoods next.
Whether the order comes from your physician or is consumer directed, patients now have an option to select a time and...
The Phoenix-based orthopedic group isn't new to Michigan, but the Lakes Ambulatory Surgical Center in West Bloomfield Township is its first investment in an outpatient surgery center in the state.
According to reporting from Crain's Detroit Business, The CORE Institute has made itself known in Michigan, creating partnerships with...
The Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC) filed an appeal asking the court to throw out a contempt citation against its director along with a $1.4 million fine for not adequately improving the healthcare of 33,000 inmates in state-run Arizona prisons.
The appeal was filed two days after the department was threatened with more fines...
The suit originated and is led by Connecticut and now includes 43 other state attorneys general including Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich.
Filed May 10 in U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, the 524 page suit claims Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Pfizer, Sandoz, - a total of nearly two dozen makers of generic drugs...
Arizona passes a law that mirrors the rule published by the Department of Labor in June of 2018.
With the individual mandate being ineffective due to a zero-dollar penalty, Americans can choose not to buy an ACA compliant plan.
Association health plans (AHP) are an example of options available to consumers that are contrary to ACA...
The powerhouse lobby is putting pressure on the U.S. Justice Department to look into whether the merger will reduce competition in Medicaid managed care and Medicare Advantage markets.
In an eight-page letter, AHA cites the DOJ's injunction to block Aetna's acquisition of Humana and other recent forced divestures by UnitedHealth...National Resources
The Pennant Group, a separately traded company, but a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ensign, would pick up Ensign’s home health and hospice operations, most of its senior living operations, plus mobile diagnostic and clinical laboratory operations.
Once the deal is complete The Ensign Group, Inc., will limit itself to transitional and...
More than 40 Carolina medical societies and organizations are committed to helping their medical community prepare to participate, navigate, lead and succeed in a value-driven healthcare system. The ACO Specialist Manual is a strategic guide to getting the optimum value-add contributions from each medical specialty in integrated health...
Steward Health Care will start seeing patients at Florence Hospital - A Campus of Mountain Vista Medical Center, in mid-June, a year after Florence Hospital at Anthem and its affiliated hospital in Gilbert both closed abruptly after ongoing financial struggles.
Although not labeled by Steward as a micro-hospital, the Florence facility...
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