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Outpatient is the New Inpatient – The Future of Hospitals in America

Health Populi

.” And another verbatim observation that illustrates some hospitals’ doubling-down on the outpatient opportunity: “The focus of the past 10 years has been on preventing readmissions, and now in the next 10 years, the focus will be on preventing admissions.”

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Doing Less Can Be Doing More for Healthcare – the Biggest Takeaway From ASCO 2018

Health Populi

The study, Adjuvant Chemotherapy Guided by a 21-Gene Expression Assay in Breast Cancer, was published in The New England Journal of Medicine on June 3, 2018, coinciding with the researchers’ ASCO presentation of the results. ” A genetic test that costs $3,000 helps to identify women who could benefit from avoiding chemo.

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A Tale of Two States: Idaho, Limiting Health Plan Benefits; and Oregon, Moving Toward Universal Health Care

Health Populi

Health insurers in the state are now allowed to offer plans with limited benefits, escaping the rules for plans in the Affordable Care Act that provided for a list of covered benefits. David Cameron, the state’s Director of Insurance, called this strategy, “pushing the envelope” in an interview with NPR last month.

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Scaling the Social Determinants of Health – McKinsey and Kaiser’s Bold Move

Health Populi

adults between 18 and 64 years of age in December 2018. Respondents were both uninsured and insured through individual coverage, Medicare, Medicaid, and dual enrollees. McKinsey conducted the survey among over 12,500 U.S.

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Top 5 Questions about being a Medical Assistant

Milwaukee Career College

The healthcare industry needs trained professionals who can complete a variety of important tasks such as updating medical records, recording vital signs and symptoms, or dealing with health insurance policies. Bureau of Labor Statistics , the average pay for a medical assistant in 2018 was $33,610 per year. According to the U.S.

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All You Need to Know about BU’s Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Accepted Blog

If you want to know how much of BU medical school’s recent $100 million gift it intends to use for scholarships, or what happens to applications to ensure a genuinely holistic process, or what its associate dean of admissions wants to see in students read on! Welcome to the 541st episode of Admissions Straight Talk.

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Rationing Care in America: Cost Implications Getting to Universal Health Coverage

Health Populi

mid-terms elections in the first week of November, 2018. Underneath this statistic, it’s important to compare the payor mix of patients delaying care: nearly one-third of people with private, commercial insurance delayed care by 2018; 22% of people enrolled in Medicaid or Medicare put off care. And, 19% of U.S.