You’ve likely heard about the endeavor announced earlier this year by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JP Morgan Chase to collectively create a better way to provide health care for their employees. (We’ve also previously covered it on this blog.) The group announced this week that...
For those who have been reading our blog for a while, or are familiar with our organization, you know that our mission is to support independent practices. (If you’re not familiar, one look at our website tells the whole story: www.speromd.com). With the sustainability of independent...
Earlier this year, Apple released Health Records as a new element within its Health app, which allows users to access their EHR health data for participating organizations through this app. This week, Apple released an application program interface (API) that will allow integration of health...
We saw a very interesting article in Modern Healthcare this week that we wanted to share with our readers. We have been sharing some compelling healthcare data recently, including some information related to the increasing cost of healthcare, so we thought this may be of...
Late Thursday, Quest Diagnostics and United Health Group announced that they are forming a strategic partnership effective January 1, 2019. The partnership will mean Quest will now be an in-network lab for all United Health Group members. United also extended their existing agreement with LabCorp,...
We’ve come across another excellent tool from the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) that we are excited to share with our readers. This tool allows you to customize the data you’re interested in analyzing, including the ability to compare multiple different states on the same metrics. ...
On Wednesday, the Kaiser Family Foundation and Peterson Center on Healthcare held a forum focused on healthcare prices. Data shows that prices for healthcare in the United States are far steeper than prices in other countries. Unfortunately, there is not a parallel relationship between our...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced this week that they’re working on a new Direct Primary Care payment model with price transparency, predictability, and affordability with Medicare members in mind. Beyond ease of use for members, the intention is also to reduce...
Elizabeth Woodcock, the founder and principal of Woodcock & Associates, spoke with us regarding what you need to know when choosing a medical billing company. Below is some important information she shared with us. Medical practices know that in order to be successful, they need highly...
Electronic health records are an integral aspect of daily practice for many providers, and virtually all hospitals in the US. Despite all of this data, we have yet to create an interoperability framework among the various EHRs that is acceptable to all parties involved. Despite the...