With the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ready to financially penalize facilities that fail to mitigate excess hospital readmission, InTouch Health’s clients began clamoring for solutions to expand care beyond hospital walls.
By Guest commentary / Friday, March 6th, 2015 / Op/Eds, Opinion / Comments Off on Op/ed: Letting taxpayers off the hook for subsidies: a case of moral hazard
American political culture has morphed from a ‘can do’ attitude to an ‘it’s easier to kick the can down the road’ approach to decision-making.
Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics brought its finances into the black largely thanks to the expansion of health coverage under the Affordable Care Act that has dropped the clinics’ number of uninsured patients by 14.4 percent.
By Guest commentary / Friday, January 23rd, 2015 / Op/Eds, Opinion / Comments Off on Op/ed: Employer-based health care could soon be put on life support
Judging by the trend of the past few years, Americans with job-based coverage could soon become a minority.
Area hospitals are getting nearly daily updates from the Centers for Disease Control as efforts to contain the Ebola virus in the United States kick into high gear.
