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08/05/2024
Payer-provider collaboration represents a crucial opportunity to bridge the gap between those who provide care and those who finance it. In this commentary, experts delve into strategies to help foster a collaborative relationship between...
Payer-provider collaboration represents a crucial opportunity to bridge the gap between those who provide care and those who finance it. In this commentary, experts delve into strategies to help foster a collaborative relationship between...
Payer-provider collaboration...
08/05/2024
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Commentary
07/10/2024
Already challenged with cost, care, and administrative pressures, health care organizations are now staring down a daunting talent supply-and-demand gap. This shortage will negatively affect affordability and access to care for consumers and...
Already challenged with cost, care, and administrative pressures, health care organizations are now staring down a daunting talent supply-and-demand gap. This shortage will negatively affect affordability and access to care for consumers and...
Already challenged with cost,...
07/10/2024
First Report Managed Care
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Commentary
07/01/2024
More than 6 million Americans are living with heart failure (HF), the leading cause of hospitalization among adults 65 and older. In this commentary, Chris Darland, CEO, Peerbridge Health, discusses emerging technologies, such as AI-enabled...
More than 6 million Americans are living with heart failure (HF), the leading cause of hospitalization among adults 65 and older. In this commentary, Chris Darland, CEO, Peerbridge Health, discusses emerging technologies, such as AI-enabled...
More than 6 million Americans...
07/01/2024
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Commentary
06/12/2024
Lynn Carroll, Chief Operating Officer, HSBlox
David Wolf, Vice President of Product Management, MedeAnalytics
Value-based care (VBC) models aim improve clinical outcomes and reduce health care costs by proactively focusing on patient wellness. To make this preventive approach to individual and population care work, patients, providers, payers, and...
Value-based care (VBC) models aim improve clinical outcomes and reduce health care costs by proactively focusing on patient wellness. To make this preventive approach to individual and population care work, patients, providers, payers, and...
Value-based care (VBC) models...
06/12/2024
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Commentary
06/04/2024
Clay Ritchey, CEO, Verato
The ever evolving and pervasive digital ecosystem has transformed the way consumers research, engage, and transact—with more transparency and efficiency than ever before. And as health care digital transformation continues, consumers are...
The ever evolving and pervasive digital ecosystem has transformed the way consumers research, engage, and transact—with more transparency and efficiency than ever before. And as health care digital transformation continues, consumers are...
The ever evolving and pervasive...
06/04/2024
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Commentary
05/28/2024
Tim Price, Chief Product Officer at Infermedica
The role of artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly significant, particularly in enhancing the customer experience for health plan members. Health plan executives have a unique opportunity to leverage AI’s potential, mirroring...
The role of artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly significant, particularly in enhancing the customer experience for health plan members. Health plan executives have a unique opportunity to leverage AI’s potential, mirroring...
The role of artificial...
05/28/2024
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Commentary
05/06/2024
Anne Dabrow Woods, DNP, RN, CRNP, ANP-BC, AGACNP-BC, FAAN
It's no secret that nursing is in a state of crisis. From the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic to now, nurses nationwide have increasingly battled rising burnout and stress–all while caring for higher-acuity patients, with less support. Anne...
It's no secret that nursing is in a state of crisis. From the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic to now, nurses nationwide have increasingly battled rising burnout and stress–all while caring for higher-acuity patients, with less support. Anne...
It's no secret that nursing is...
05/06/2024
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04/09/2024

Britteny Matero, partner and senior vice president, Market Access, Innsena, and Jaime Bland, DNP, RN, president and chief executive officer, CyncHealth

Britteny Matero, partner and senior v...
The US faces a critical maternal health crisis, with high maternal mortality rates exacerbated by COVID-19 and racial disparities. Institutional changes are needed to prevent these largely preventable deaths, and two experts highlight...
The US faces a critical maternal health crisis, with high maternal mortality rates exacerbated by COVID-19 and racial disparities. Institutional changes are needed to prevent these largely preventable deaths, and two experts highlight...
The US faces a critical maternal...
04/09/2024
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Commentary
04/02/2024

Shannon Smith, RN, BSN

Shannon Smith, RN, BSN
As the health care industry prepares for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to implement new guidelines to streamline prior authorization procedures, significant operational changes are on the horizon for health care payers....
As the health care industry prepares for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to implement new guidelines to streamline prior authorization procedures, significant operational changes are on the horizon for health care payers....
As the health care industry...
04/02/2024
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Commentary
03/27/2024

By Julie Schulz, MD, MPH

By Julie Schulz, MD, MPH
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is an insidious condition with devastating consequences when detected and treated too late. While primary care physicians usually make the initial diagnosis, regular screening is not routine for the general...
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is an insidious condition with devastating consequences when detected and treated too late. While primary care physicians usually make the initial diagnosis, regular screening is not routine for the general...
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is...
03/27/2024
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