Priyam Vora

Personalized preventive care achieves definitive cost savings and better health management within 3 years of adoption, MDVIP study finds.

New research indicates that spending is relatively higher when care is initiated in the hospital outpatient department setting compared with the physician's office or an ambulatory surgical center.

New research found nearly all highly ranked regional hospitals to be in network with at least one marketplace plan in both 2015 and 2016.

As millions of patients nationwide increasingly gain access to clinicians’ notes, explicit e-mail invitations to review notes may be an important link in fostering patient engagement and patient-doctor communication, according to a new study.

The presence of interstitial lung abnormalities is linked to an increased risk of death, according to a new research published in JAMA.

Experts and biological researchers aren’t completely convinced with the president's cancer moonshot initiative and the released budget.

To improve access for beneficiaries, CMS has proposed a plan to increase the availability of preferred cost-sharing pharmacies in Medicare.

Additional cuts to Medicare Advantage plans would unduly affect the more than one-third of beneficiaries in the low-income bracket, according to a report from America's Health Insurance Plans.

Looking at trends in economic growth, healthcare costs, and employment, researchers find that the Affordable Care Act has acted as an economic stimulus.

Researchers urge against solely relying on body mass index, which has mislabeled many Americans as “obese” and “overweight” when they are actually healthy.

While there are no significant differences in the results between filgrastim and tbo-filgrastim in a clinical setting, tbo-filgrastim offers significant cost savings over filgrastim.

Many key guidelines regarding Medicaid and CHIP eligibility, enrollment, renewal, and cost-sharing policies have changed and the 14th annual 50-state survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation identified all the major changes that occurred in 2015.

A deeper understanding of the interdependencies among the patients, family caregivers, and service providers revealed that if general practice teams intervene early, they may be more likely meet patients’ needs in the end-of-life care process.

Among 7 developed countries, the United States has the lowest proportion of deaths that occur in the hospital and the lowest number of days spent in the hospital during the last 6 months of life.

Annual report from the United States Renal Data System reveals positive and negative trends in kidney disease and touches on several topics related to the prevalence, costs, and treatment of the diseases.

Providing cancer patients with multiple life-threatening conditions with earlier palliative care consultation can be helpful in bringing down healthcare spending in enormous proportions, according to a new study published in Health Affairs.

The use of state managed care Medicaid programs have increased, but new research finds that these programs have mixed financial outcomes.

Patient-reported symptoms in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease may contribute information that can be used to infer future exacerbations and related costs.

Presenting patients with a one-page handout of information on additional interventions and data on the low value of a service did little to dissuade patients choosing to use a low-value service.

Patients with high mental health care costs incur nearly 30% more costs than the usual high-cost patients.

A new law in California mandates hospitals recognize and involve family caregivers during hospital admissions and discharges in order to reduce the barriers for better care.

Black patients tend to have higher rates of hyperglycemia and diabetes compared with white patients. However, the factors that contribute to such racial disparities in the hospital in diabetes-related conditions are still not clear.

A new study published in JAMA Pediatrics stressed the importance of providing a variety of health coverage options for children under the Affordable Care Act.

Tele-ICU has been part of a model of care that has tremendous potential to positively affect patients and their families; however, the concept of tele-ICU still faces a few challenges.

A new study finds that projected and planned-for modifications to Medicare Advantage by CMS could lead to major changes in payments based on geographic locations.

Women over 65 years of age with early-stage, fast-spreading breast cancer had better chances of surviving if they endured treatment therapy, according to a new study.

Despite Congressional directives for 30 years to diversify clinical research, the number of studies that include minorities and the diversity of scientists being funded have not improved.

Most hematologic oncologists have end-of-life discussions with patients with blood cancers too late, according to a new study.

In addition to being responsible for longer hospital stays and readmissions, Clostridium difficile is increases hospital costs by 40%, according to a new study conducted by Premier, Inc.

A new study finds that Medicare recipients can prevent hospital admissions if they seek medical assessment from clinical home visits, which increase the number of visits to the doctors while reducing the costs of healthcare because of treatment in less-costly sites.