In healthcare, a payer—also referred to as a payor—isthe person, organization, or entity that pays for the care services administered by a healthcare provider. Who are the main payers? Of the approximately 1,200 health insurance companies in the United States, Forbes lists the top five l...
So let’s get our labels straight: Insuring all Californians in a fair and just system is pragmatic and humane. Carol Bardoff, San Leandro, Calif. .. To the editor:California cannot stand by itself as the sole provider of a single-payer health plan in the United States. Instead, the f...
It turns out there’s one big reason why not. Remember that in most cases, the “payer” isn’t the patient, but an insurance provider acting on their behalf. And, in the U.S., we have a mix of public insurance programs, private insurance companies, and independent employer-funded insu...
Two-part regression analyses were performed to model hours of care received from each payer. "Random effects" and "fixed effects" estimation yielded similar results. Results: About six in ten caregivers (63 %) providing home care services are paid by personal sources alone. By contrast, 28 %...
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VBPCs are often complex, and the nature of who benefits and in what ways can be unclear. We discuss how VBPCs compare with value-based payer-provider arrangements in terms of performance-based reimbursements and alignment of incentives. In addition, we examine how VBPCs can affect costs, ...
HealthPartners, a large Minnesota health plan, publicly reports comparative provider group performance on a composite All-or-None Optimal Diabetes Care measure. (3) In addition to A1C of less than 7.0%, the measure also requires a low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) level of less than...
When it comes to digital health, who pays for this service is still a big question. According to Viswanathan, it is going to take various stakeholders to buy in. “I think we're talking about how the pressure point has to come starting with the payer opening up their wallets, but it...
The guideline also recommends implementing provider-to-provider and patient-to-provider telemedicine services to address patients’ accessibility to health facilities and providers, particularly in underserved communities. WHO officials point out that telemedicine is a valuable complement to face-to-...
Significant progress has been achieved in human health in the European Union in recent years. New medicines, vaccines, and treatments have been developed to tackle some of the leading causes of disease and life-threatening illnesses. It is clear that inv