In many countries, including the United States and the United Kingdom, hospitals are paid per admission by payers (ie, commercial insurers and governments), with more reimbursement for treating more severely ill patients and lower reimbursement for treating lesser ill patients. This system is known as the Diagnosis-Related Group (DRG) system in the United States because the DRG is used to assess the severity of admissions and the level of hospital reimbursement.In England, changes to the system are implemented as described Aragon et al. (2022): Beginning in 1989, the purchaser’s intent was to enter into contractual agreements with hospitals and to determine for themselves the specific form of these agreements. However, the system of setting hospital-level budgets – known in NHS procurement terminology as… [Read More...]
Former CMS admin resigns from Centene board over governance, leadership disputes
Leslie Norwalk this week from Centene’s The board is divided over governance processes and committee leadership. Centene made public her resignation letter Friday in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Norwalk, a former administrator of the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services, was named to the insurance company’s board in January. She is a strategic advisor to the law firm Epstein Becker Green. Norwalk did not immediately respond to an interview request. “The governance process surrounding a recent important decision is seriously behind as I and some other board members see fit,” Norwalk wrote in his April 11 resignation letter. She wrote that the full board did not receive enough information and had no opportunity to discuss it before voting on &#… [Read More...]
Foster Care Economics – Healthcare Economist
<!– .entry-header –> This is something I know very little about, so Bald and others. (2022) The NBER working paper is an interesting read. They describe the key stress of foster care: failing to put foster children at risk can expose them to abuse or neglect; however, putting too many at-risk children into foster care can lead to family disintegration. Some interesting excerpts follow: Prevalence/incidence: “5{da2ef7ff2781dfb5887db3e3a6cf03c7c894e23a27536de3f64bd799872794d1} of U.S. children are in foster care at some point during childhood, and other countries have similar rates…. 2019 [Child Protective Services] CPS surveyed nearly 3.5 million children who were abused (nearly 5{da2ef7ff2781dfb5887db3e3a6cf03c7c894e23a27536de3f64bd799872794d1} of all children) and classified approximately 652,000 children as victims (nearly 1{da2ef7ff2781dfb5887db3e3a6cf03c7c894e23a27536de3f64bd799872794d1} of all children)…37{da2ef7ff2781dfb5887db3e3a6cf03c7c894e23a27536de3f64bd799872794d1} of children experienced child welfare surveys , 12{da2ef7ff2781dfb5887db3e3a6cf03c7c894e23a27536de3f64bd799872794d1} of children… [Read More...]
Homeschooling continues despite school reopenings
The coronavirus pandemic has sparked the fastest homeschooling growth in U.S. history. Two years later, even after schools reopen and vaccines are widely available, many parents choose to continue directing their children’s education on their own. The number of people homeschooled this year is down from last year’s all-time high, but remains well above pre-pandemic levels, according to data obtained and analyzed by The Associated Press. Families who may have turned to homeschooling as an alternative to hastily created distance learning plans have persisted — for reasons including health concerns, disagreement with school policies and a desire to keep what works for their children. Among the 18 states that shared data through this school year, the number of homeschooled students increased by 63{da2ef7ff2781dfb5887db3e3a6cf03c7c894e23a27536de3f64bd799872794d1}… [Read More...]
WHO: Africa’s coronavirus cases and deaths fall to lowest levels so far
Coronavirus cases and deaths in Africa have fallen to their lowest levels since the start of the pandemic, marking the longest decline for the disease, according to the World Health Organization. The United Nations health agency said in a statement on Thursday that COVID-19 infections due to a surge in omicron had “fallen” from a weekly peak of more than 308,000 cases to less than 20,000 last week. Cases and deaths fell 29{da2ef7ff2781dfb5887db3e3a6cf03c7c894e23a27536de3f64bd799872794d1} and 37{da2ef7ff2781dfb5887db3e3a6cf03c7c894e23a27536de3f64bd799872794d1}, respectively, last week; the number of deaths fell to 239 from the previous week. “Since April 2020, this low level of infection has not been seen in the early stages of the pandemic in Africa,” the WHO said, noting that no country in the region is currently experiencing an increase in COVID-19 cases… [Read More...]
THCB Gang Episode 87, Thursday, April 14, 1pm PT, 4pm ET – Healthcare Blog
THCB Gang Join Matthew Holt (@boltyboy(@MightyCasey); futurist Ian Morrison@seccurve) & Jeff Goldsmith; Jennifer Benz (@Jenbenz); and policy advisor/author Rosemarie Day (@Rosemarie_Day1). You can watch the video live below (which will be archived later), and if you’d rather listen than watch, the audio will remain as a weekly podcast, available on our iTunes & Spotify channel. Source link The post THCB Gang Episode 87, Thursday, April 14, 1pm PT, 4pm ET – Healthcare Blog appeared first on JusticeNewsFlash.com. [Read More...]
Trinity Health’s Michigan hospital renamed with namesake
Livonia-based Trinity Health announced Wednesday that it will rebrand all of its Michigan operations under the Trinity Health name in Michigan. The name change will affect all eight Trinity hospitals in the state, including St. Joseph’s Mercy Health System in Metro Detroit and Mercy Health on the west side of the state, as well as medical groups IHA and Mercy Health Physician Partners. Trinity’s 22 senior living communities and other entities will also be renamed, the health system announced in a press release. “As a member of Trinity Health for 22 years, we are transforming our identity to maintain our position as one of the largest health care systems in Michigan and committed to putting our patients at the center of everything we do,&#… [Read More...]
George Miller Jr., CEO of Loretto Hospital, is out
“George Miller is no longer president and CEO of Loreto Hospital and is not affiliated with the organization,” Loreto’s board of directors said in a statement. “Our leadership team, team members and medical staff remain unwavering in their commitment to providing the Austin community with the highest level of patient care and advocacy.” Tesa Anewishki, chief development officer and executive director of the Loreto Hospital Foundation, immediately succeeds Miller as interim president and CEO. Loretto employees were informed of the change in an internal memo today, Pear said. Download the Modern Healthcare app to stay informed as industry news emerges. Last year, Miller Suspension without pay They left the hospital for two weeks after learning that the hospital was giving doses of… [Read More...]
Appeals court: J&J must pay $302 million in pelvic mesh case
A California appeals court upheld a lower court ruling that Johnson & Johnson must pay the state a fine for deceptively marketing women’s pelvic mesh implants, but reduced the amount by $42 million to $302 million. Johnson & Johnson appealed in 2020 after Superior Court Judge Eddie Sturgeon assessed a $344 million fine by its subsidiary Ethicon. Sturgeon found after a non-jury trial that the company made misleading and potentially harmful statements in hundreds of thousands of advertisements and instructional manuals over nearly two decades. California’s Fourth District Court of Appeals issued a ruling Monday that found the company’s $42 million fine for pitching to doctors was unreasonable because there was no evidence of what the sales reps actually said. But the appeals court… [Read More...]
COVID-19, overdose push U.S. to highest death toll ever
2021 is the deadliest year in U.S. history, and new data and research provide more insight into how it got so bad. The main reason for the increase in deaths? COVID-19, said Robert Anderson, who oversees the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s death tally efforts. The agency quietly updated its provisional death toll this month. It showed 3.465 million deaths last year, about 80,000 more than the record total for 2020. Early last year, some experts were optimistic that 2021 would not be as bad as the first year of the pandemic — in part because an effective COVID-19 vaccine is finally available. “Unfortunately, we were wrong,” said Noreen Goldman, a researcher at Princeton University. Experts say the COVID-19 death toll will rise to more than 415,000 in… [Read More...]
Hospital System Concentration is a Money Machine – Healthcare Blog
Every week I add a short tidbits section to THCB Reader, our weekly newsletter summarizing the best THCB of the week (Register here!). Then I have brain waves to add them to the blog. They are short and usually not too sweet! –Matthew Holt For today’s healthcare tidbits, there are an old chestnut I can’t seem to get away. I was triggered by three articles this week. Merril Goozner on GoozNews watched Hospital construction boom. Meanwhile, perennial favorite Sutter Health and its pricing power emerged in a report that showed, Eleven of the 19 most expensive hospital markets are located in Northern California, which dominates the market. Finally, the Gist newsletter points out that virtually all large health systems’ real profits come from their investment… [Read More...]
U.S. efforts to make protective medical gear flatten
When the coronavirus pandemic first hit the U.S., Halcyon Shades’ curtain sales quickly dimmed. So the suburban St. Louis business did what hundreds of other small manufacturers did: With the help of an $870,000 government grant, it turned to producing protective gear. But things didn’t go according to plan. The company stopped making face shields because it wasn’t profitable. It still hasn’t sold a single N95 mask due to difficulties getting equipment, materials and regulatory approvals. “So far, it’s been a net drain on money, resources and energy,” said Halcyon Shades boss Jim Schmersahl. Many companies that began producing personal protective equipment with patriotic optimism have scaled back, closed or abandoned, according to an Associated Press analysis based on numerous… [Read More...]
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