Category: “Training”

At the peak in 2006, according to a 2008 Government Accounting Office report, Medicare spent $14.1 billion on diagnostic imaging. Since then, annual spending has steadily dropped, falling by 21 percent by 2010, based on a Neiman Policy Institute report. To date, this trend has not reversed, Levin said. - See more at: http://www.diagnosticimaging.com/reimbursement/imaging-utilization-trends-and-reimbursement?GUID=52331DD9-6AF6-4DA6-9850-104DD469DEE5&rememberme=1&ts=25072014#sthash.MPKxXUgQ.dpuf

"The digital health markets need to develop business models that make sense while organizations are transitioning to these different care reimbursement models," said Sandra Elliott, Director, Consumer Technology and Service Development, Meridian Health. "Health and technology providers should focus on providing end-to-end scalable solutions that offer financial benefits to purchasers while showing value to patients as individuals by enabling them to live their life to the fullest, thus encouraging strong consumer engagement."

While HIPAA was enacted to protect the protected health information of patients, it appears hospitals are incorrectly citing HIPAA as a protection of their own interests, argues Charles Ornstein, a ProPublica healthcare journalist, in a report co-published on NPR.

1. Is the impact of the PPACA worth the cost?
2. Should federal or state governments control healthcare policy?
3. Are high-deductible plans and high out-of-pocket costs a necessary evil?
4. What policies are generally supported by both parties?
5. Who should be required, if anyone, to cover contraception?
6. Was the administration unable to predict that insurers would be forced to drop catastrophic-only health plans, leading to public outcry?
7. Should individuals using the federal exchange receive subsidies?
8. Is the explosive increase and expansion in the False Claims Act warranted or overreaching?
9. Has lack of antitrust enforcement led to too much hospital power?
10. Should hospitals get paid more than physicians and surgery centers for providing the same services?

This dashboard of volumes and hospital metrics will help pinpoint the needs medical providers have that you can sell into.

If you sell into the Oncology space this is where you want to go.