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Mobile health clinics might be a way to reduce ER visits in Southern California

Fourth in a four-part series that examines emergency room use in Southern California. The 911 calls come from all corners of northern Los Angeles County’s rural desert communities: Asthma attack. ... read more

Blue Cross, Atrius Health sign new deal to reduce health care costs

The state’s largest insurer and largest independent physician group have signed a deal they say could ultimately serve as a contracting model for others aiming to reduce health ... can look up what ... read more

New Jersey hospitals reach out to patients to reduce ER visits

Kenneth King conferences with Melanie Hightower at Jersey City Medical Center about ways she can manage her seizures at home. (Frances Micklow/The Star-Ledger) Melanie Hightower was what you might ... ... read more

Five Ways Obamacare Has Improved Your Health Care

But behind the noise and confusion, there are some major forces at work that are driving new models of care and changing the way we practice, pay for, and evaluate health ... to reduce the overuse of ... read more

Lawmakers need to lower drug prices, not bail out Big Pharma

Here are the facts: A 2017 study done by the University of Southern California ... with their health. This starts an entirely new domino effect. The person becomes ill since they can’t afford the ... read more

10 Ways Telemedicine Is Changing Healthcare IT

Today, telemedicine is used in medical fields such as dermatology, behavioral health and cardiology as a way to provide better care to communities underserved by physicians, hospitals or both; it is ... read more

Paramedics Make House Calls to Reduce ER Visits

Its goals are to reduce emergency room ... Fike said. Primary care doctors also can request mobile health visits and patients may be seen after they are discharged from the hospital or emergency room. ... read more

Pilot Program Aims To Reduce Number Of Unnecessary Emergency Room Visits

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – A new pilot program is hoping to reduce the number of unnecessary emergency room visits and the associated costs. Allegheny Health Network and ... provide the best patient care,” ... read more

Where Is The Value In Health Care?

But the idea is that value-based care responds to incentives created by value-based payments, to maximize the value of care delivered to a given patient. Inside Obamacare: The Fix For America’s Ailing ... read more

Blue Cross in Alabama says it won't quit paying for some ER visits

"Health care is becoming more and more expensive. It's a way to make sure ... clinics within 15 miles; or ER visits made on Sundays or major holidays. Will Alabama follow suit? While Georgia is moving ... read more

Southern California ERs look for answers to the crush of newly insured patients at their doors

One solution to allay the high numbers may be a pilot project Kazan and the Los Angeles County Fire Department are trying out: a mobile integrated health care unit ... amounts to some 500,000 ER ... read more

Employers hope to save millions by reducing unnecessary ER visits

Facing rising health care costs ... percent reduction in ER visits in from 2016 to 2017. Despite the potential, employers speaking at the event said informing employees where to go for care is only ... read more