Tag Archives: hospital

Genesis Health System Follows Senior Care Expansion Trend

Genesis Health System (GHS) is one of the latest health systems expanding its senior care services. GHS is a four-hospital integrated health system located in the Quad Cities area.

PeaceHealth Latest to Join Health System Urgent Care Trend

Health systems are increasingly investing in express care strategies to expand their reach deeper into their communities as well as cut costs. Health systems are seeking to connect with the patient at all levels of care and are creating their own urgent care centers and often affiliating themselves with retail clinics. Urgent care centers can […]

Provider Owned Commercial Health Plans

Provider Owned Commercial Health Plans. Provider-sponsored plans make up 15% or more of the health insurance market, and this percentage is growing, according to many of the projections by industry observers. Until recently, commercial health insurance products have, with only a few exceptions, been offered by health insurance companies. Now, health systems are increasingly assuming financial risk […]

Health System Consolidation and Impact on Providing Care, Products or Services

Health System Consolidation and Impact on Providing Care, Products or Services: Consolidation among hospitals and health systems has been increasing for some time and is now quite broad in many markets. This activity comes from mergers and acquisitions, along with a major driver of larger organizations gaining market share from smaller competitors. The degree of […]

Insurers-Hospitals Face Cost Structure Change

Knowsource.com Announces Transition to Access Market Intelligence

Insurers-Hospitals Face Cost Structure Change Insurance fundamentals (risk) that supersede the ACA are driving changes seen in coverage, and at a more rapid pace each year, resulting from ACA impacts. One of those changes has been a significant increase in the use of alternate sites of care (ASOCs) due to medical policy changes driven by […]

Managed care pharmacy survey findings 2016

Managed care pharmacy survey findings 2016 Managed Healthcare Executive September 26, 2016 To identify the top managed care pharmacy challenges and what your peers are doing about them, Managed Healthcare Executive, in partnership with Access Market Intelligence and the National Institute of Collaborative Healthcare, conducted its first-ever pharmacy survey during the second quarter of 2016. […]

John Santilli quoted in Modern Medicine: Top Five Industry Challenges of 2015

Employers and insurers are responding to costs of expensive drugs like Sovaldi with step therapy, or higher tiers of drug-payment categories, and shifting the site of care from hospitals to physician offices, says John Santilli, partner in Access Market Intelligence. Read more here: http://managedhealthcareexecutive.modernmedicine.com/managed-healthcare-executive/news/top-five-industry-challenges-2015?page=0,7