Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

CVS Health/Aetna, Amazon, and Walmart rank in the next-most competitive group impacting hospitals, followed by new primary care models. And of course, in their favored brick-and-mortar hospital, ambulatory care center, clinic, or doctor’s office.

Primary Care 77

Primary Care Hospitals Ambulatory Care Integration 77

Sheppard Health Law

JANUARY 10, 2024

As Mostashari said today, it is becoming increasingly clear to primary care practices that the current system is not sustainable. Now I understand why my primary care physician tests me annually for inflammation through a C-reactive protein (CRP) test. GLP-1’s for Chronic Kidney Disease?

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Ambulatory Care Primary Care Medicare 52

Health Populi

OCTOBER 10, 2022

.” McKinsey is talking about Medicare’s spending that could be shifted home in just two+ years, ranging from $180 to a quarter of a trillion dollars. There’s a convergence and blur in the center here, with primary care and ambulatory care getting the attention they merit as lower-cost and more appropriate sites of care.

Primary Care 62

Primary Care Ambulatory Care Hospitals Integration 62

Health Populi

DECEMBER 12, 2022

consumers’ utilization of health care has been pretty stable, the type of visit encounters is shifting away from hospital inpatient cases to ambulatory care, urgent and retail health care sites, data from Kaufman Hall and Sg2 tell us. While overall U.S.

Healthcare 68

Healthcare Ambulatory Care Hospitals Primary Care 68

Health Populi

APRIL 18, 2023

Most commonly provided today are diagnostic imaging centers, ambulatory care centers, community healthcare workers, labs, and walk-in centers. Recent research from Wolters Kluwer explored this phenomenon, learning that these younger health care consumers seek convenience but also lower costs for medications and services.

Ambulatory Care 62

Ambulatory Care Hospitals Primary Care Healthcare 62

Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Furthermore, let’s get real about health care costs, which of course, is a Health Populi /THINK-Health modus vivendi. The average cost of an ambulatory care visit is now nearly $500 , and an inpatient stay, about $22,000. Self-care is the new black, as I have written and proselytized.

Ambulatory Care 72

Ambulatory Care Prevention Primary Care Health Technology 72

Health Populi

JUNE 30, 2023

Another key shift that serves as a medical cost trend deflator is the shift in site of care, to homes, community-based care locales, and outpatient healthcare settings such as ambulatory surgery centers. We’ve reached a new phase in health care in the U.S.,

Ambulatory Care 81

Ambulatory Care Life Sciences Pharmaceuticals Hospitals 81