Enlarge this image Pixabay Editor’s note: This is an excerpt of Planet Money’s newsletter. You can sign up here. Last year, when New York Governor Andrew Cuomo was battling to win the Democratic primary, his campaign solicited a donation from the Greater New York Hospital Association, according to a recent report from The New York… Read More »
According to recent MGMA Stat Poll, healthcare organizations are struggling with the ever-widening gap between reimbursements and cost of care. Participants were asked whether their practices 2019 Medicare payment rates were above, equal to or below the cost of delivering care. More than two-thirds of medical practices reported that 2019 Medicare payments will not cover… Read More »
What should we eat to save the planet – and ourselves?Ilka & Franz/Getty By Michael Le Page Our food is killing us, and the planet. That’s the message from a group of 37 experts called the EAT-Lancet commission, which spent three years poring over the evidence to work out the best diet in terms of… Read More »
To curb costs in prescription drug spending, clinical decision support can help stop the upward trend of per capita spending that makes cost in this country higher than in any other industrialized nation. Adam Szerencsy, medical director, Ambulatory Informatics, NYU Langone Medical Center, will discuss how the health system was able to reduce its medication… Read More »
When an athlete crouches down at the starting blocks of an Olympic Games event, every aspect of their diet and training has been finely tuned to achieve one aim: to win. Even when it comes to their minds, they can allow no doubt and no loss of focus. If an athlete is competing on the… Read More »