These Are Boom Times for MA
By almost any measure, these are good times for Medicare Advantage. Enrollment is growing, the number of insurers in the market is increasing, and gross margins are higher than in other health insurance markets.
Patients in Observation Status
How are healthcare systems addressing the shift from inpatient to observation?
How to Know if This Promotion Is Right for You
Healthcare and business professionals share insight on the reasons you should or shouldn’t take a leap into a new career step.
Satisfying Patient Needs Across the Generations
How to appeal to people of any age.
Ten Habits That Lead To Success
Your success depends on more than your vision and long-range planning. What you do in the short term - indeed, each day - can make you a more effective leader and colleague, help the bottom line, and tilt probabilities toward your success.
Five Ways to Motivate Your Team
Clinicians at UMass Memorial Health Care recommend strategies to better motivate team members, transform care delivery and save lives.
Top 8 Healthcare Business Trends
Healthcare executives and consultants told us which strategic trends to look out for - before COVID-19.
Basu Takes the Reins at CTCA
As president and CEO of Cancer Treatment Centers of America, Pat A. Basu, MD, MBA, looks to transform, improve, and influence cancer care on a large scale.
Diabetes: The Quiet Epidemic That Is Not Going Away
Americans have been diagnosed with diabetes, mostly with the type 2 variety linked with being overweight or obese.
Six Tips for Supporting, Connecting WFH Employees
How healthcare executives can manage employees who are working from home.
Use of Telehealth Services Increases Amid Pandemic
The telehealth industry and its observers have been surprised by how quickly the healthcare system has pivoted to telehealth and providing care remotely.
What Are the Top Pharma Challenges Right Now?
The opioid epidemic is far from over, but it may slip behind other challenges. COVID-19 obviously tops the list of new problems and drug pricing and affordability will continue to soak up time and attention.
21st Century-Style Diabetes Disease Management: Coaches and Tech-Enabled
Several Blues plans have contracted with vendors that supply tech-enabled diabetes disease management and prevention programs. Sometimes the tech is combined with coaching - by a real, live human being.
Technologies That Keep Your Health System HIPAA Compliant
When deploying technology that keeps personal health information and other healthcare data safe, health systems stay proactive.
COVID-19 Costs Hit Insurers
They are waiving cost sharing for COVID-19 treatment. How large will premium increases be next year?
How Health Execs and Employees Are Responding to COVID-19
Managed Healthcare Executive® interviewed six healthcare executives about how they and their organizations have responded to the outbreak.
