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Elation Health Acquires Medical Billing Company Lightning MD

Healthcare IT Today

Elation Health continues to expand its primary care offerings. The company recently announced the strategic acquisition of Lightning MD , a cloud-based medical billing and claims management company. ” Lightning MD is a convenient billing solution focused on user experience for independent medical practices. .

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A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being

Health Populi

deaths due to accidents, accidental overdoses, and suicide in 2017. to expand access to integrated primary and behavioral health care to younger people in America, and telehealth can be a practical and even desirable platform for doing so particular for the nation’s younger patient population. It is a critical time for the U.S.

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Doing Less Can Be Doing More for Healthcare – the Biggest Takeaway From ASCO 2018

Health Populi

I recently wrote about financial toxicity discussing a study from IQVIA Institute on the 2017 prices for oncology drugs, with all new treatments exceeding $100,000 price tags in 2017 and a median price of about $150,000 for a year’s therapy. The second chart illustrates patient-borne costs for early stage breast cancer.

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Consumers Expand Their Definition of Well-Being to Include Food-As-Medicine

Health Populi

The consumer-as-medical-bill-payor is now looking at foods with health benefits, first and foremost for heart health. Food stores gained in trust between 2017 and 2018, illustrating the opportunity that a consumer’s favorite grocery store can leverage in a trusted relationship with a person keen on health.

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Five Healthcare Industry Changes to Watch in 2020

Henry Kotula

Timoni, JD, an attorney and partner at the law firm Lindabury, McCormick, Estabrook & Cooper, in Westfield, New Jersey, who represents healthcare providers in areas of reimbursement and managed care contracting. The average number of plans a beneficiary has access to this year will be 28, up by a whopping 50% from 2017.

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150 top places to work in healthcare

Henry Kotula

In 2017, Adventist’s corporate campus received the Orlando Business Journal ‘s Corporate Philanthropy Award. As a 73-bed acute care hospital, Bailey Medical Center was recognized with Ardent Healthcare’s Ardent Cup as an outstanding facility in four times from 2012 to 2017, and it earned a five-star CMS rating in 2017.

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Gallup Reveals Americans’ Views on Industry Are the Lowest Since 2008 – Implications for Healthcare and Pharma

Health Populi

Peoples’ highest ratings of industry in American occurred in 2017 when nearly 50% of people gave business a very or somewhat positive grade. The Gallup data can help us understand the changing nature of consumers’ trust, business, and health/care as organizations strike up these relationships.