By Katherine Capps – How do you follow up a landmark event with the Bipartisan Policy Center to issue a national call to action to get the medications right? For the GTMRx Institute, you bring together an elite group of health policy influencers…
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By Kayla Matthews – A recent Cornell University study was the first of its kind to examine the prescribing behavior before and after receiving complimentary food. The institution’s goal was to see if these in-kind payments directly affect whether doctors prescribe certain drugs to their patients.
By Deborrah Short Rodrick – Thirty percent of healthcare spending could be considered waste, a recent study found—and up to one-third of wasteful spending is tied to administrative complexity, including billing challenges.
By Matt Fisher – The declaration of COVID19 as a pandemic and the United States declaring a national emergency to help contain and enhance treatment access have resulted in a number of changes to ease potential regulatory burdens or barriers in healthcare.
By Steven Posnack – On Monday, March 9th 2020, the ONC released the long awaited final rule to address information blocking and update the ONC Health IT Certification Program as directed by Congress through the 21st Century Cures Act of 2016.
By John Racine – Many healthcare organizations have started relying on contingent workers for a variety of reasons, including responding to talent shortages and addressing the rising costs of hiring full-time healthcare employees.
By Matt Fisher – The first HIPAA settlement of 2020 brings home a couple of key considerations for compliance. The first consideration is to be comfortable with one’s own level of adherence to HIPAA before filing a report (even a necessary one) that will inevitably result in an investigation.
By Art Gross – When an emergency situation occurs, like that of the recent Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak that is said to have originated in mainland China, the healthcare industry is affected worldwide.
By David Meyers MD & Jeff Brady MD, MPH – It takes a team effort to reduce potentially preventable hospital readmissions. Patients leaving the hospital need tailored education about how to take their medications, whether to get home care services, and when to follow up with their primary care physician.