With nurses in high demand, hospitals and nursing homes are forced to accept “exorbitant” rates set by staffing agencies, their lobbies argue.
Health systems used financial incentives for quality and cost performance measures, but the percentage of total physician compensation based on quality and cost was just 9% for primary-care providers, according to the study.
The documents elaborate on how to engage patients to improve trial design and use patient-reported outcomes.
Expanded tax credits through the American Rescue Plan made coverage more affordable and greater outreach efforts helped accelerate enrollment, health officials said.
The news comes on the heels of HCA’s plans to build three new hospitals in Florida, another core market for the Nashville-based health system.
Drugmakers’ ability to restrict discounts is currently being litigated in court. But more companies have enacted policies limiting such discounts since the time of a new 340B Health report, so it likely underestimates hospital losses.
The study will test a version of the biotech’s COVID-19 shot that’s tailored to the infectious variant. New data, meanwhile, help affirm the benefit of a third dose of Moderna’s current vaccine.
Hospitals are still grappling with rising turnover, widespread burnout and numerous staff calling in sick nearly two years after the pandemic began. It’s unclear when it might get better — or how much worse it could get.
A key driver behind spending at the health system is prices, not increased utilization, according to the Health Policy Commission, which is charged with policing healthcare cost growth in the state.
Membership targets for the coming year, for one, “look a shade light,” one analyst noted, though Anthem said it expects COVID-19 to cause less of a headwind in 2022 than in years prior.