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Industry Voices—9 strategies for integrating specialists into accountable care

Fierce Healthcare

Specialty care makes up a significant portion of healthcare spending, yet accountable care organizations (ACOs) often lack a specialty care strategy to lower costs and optimize specialty care.&nbsp

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Hospitals make major gains on handwashing compliance, accountability, Leapfrog finds

Fierce Healthcare

Handwashing adherence is on the up-and-up as more hospitals are holding their leadership accountable for hand hygiene, patient safety watchdog The Leapfrog Group reports. |

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Why You Shouldn't Blindly Trust Google to Automate Your Google Ads Account

Healthcare Success

Our team rescues these underperforming Google Ads accounts by removing the ineffective automations. It makes changes to your account without your direct knowledge and may even increase your ad budget to do so. This lack of clarity can be particularly frustrating for healthcare providers.

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Wyden urges feds to hold UnitedHealth execs accountable for cyberattack

Fierce Healthcare

Ron Wyden is calling on the FTC and the SEC to hold UnitedHealth Group accountable for "negligent cybersecurity practices" that allowed hackers to breach its Change Healthcare subsidiary. Oregon Sen. Oregon Sen.

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Medicare Advantage patients account for fewer avoidable hospitalizations. Here's why

Fierce Healthcare

Medicare Advantage patients account for fewer avoidable hospitalizations. Here's why rking Mon, 02/27/2023 - 17:41

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Out-of-pocket spending on prescriptions grew even after accounting for rebates: study

Fierce Healthcare

There's no shortage of attention on rising pharmaceutical costs, but policymakers need to have the full picture of trends in this space to work off of, according to a new study.

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Optum study: Accountable Medicare Advantage models produce better outcomes, greater efficiency

Fierce Healthcare

Optum study: Accountable Medicare Advantage models produce better outcomes, greater efficiency pminemyer Fri, 02/17/2023 - 13:40