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Opinions/Ideas
22 Cover story
No one to care
26 Editorial
By Harris Meyer
ProMedica CEO Randy
Most Americans say they’re
As health systems work to
happy with their employer-
Oostra says the best path to
achieve healthcare reform
move more care to lower-
based health insurance. But
that could change quickly in
cost settings, including
is through a congressionally
patients’ homes, the industry
the next economic downturn.
mandated commission.
is struggling with a chronic
Features
28 Letters
shortage of personal care
A reader says it’s “ludicrous” to ever penalize healthcare
aides. Providers are desperate
providers over the entire cost of patient care, since too much of
for solutions.
the cost is out of providers’ control.
Cover photo: Getty Images
30 Innovations 27 Guest Expert
By Jessica Kim Cohen
18 Health systems A Nebraska hospital is using an AI-enabled camera system to
targeting waste alert caregivers when patients at high risk of falling might be
By Maria Castellucci trying to get out bed—without anyone there to help them.
Wasteful spending in
healthcare is estimated 32 Q&A
at nearly $1 trillion Dr. Melinda Estes, CEO of St.
a year. An alliance Luke’s Health System in Kansas
of health systems is City, Mo., and board chair of the
committed to slashing American Hospital Association,
that figure 50% by discusses her goal to elevate the
2025. They’re taking public perception of hospitals
a variety of routes to and promote industry innovation.
get there.
Data
31 Data Points
News
The first ballots in the 2020
2 Late News 8 Providers 12 Technology elections are about to be cast.
CMS will consolidate its Gown recall Healthcare ransomware What does early polling say
eight Compare websites entangles healthcare attacks intensify about healthcare as an issue
for consumers. supply chain. in severity and among voters?
sophistication. 34 By the Numbers
4 The Week Ahead 9 Medicare
Patient ID in the Medicare spent $2.6B 14 Policy The largest healthcare investment banks.
spotlight at ONC’s in 2018 on post-op Proposed guidelines
annual meeting. visits that never on vertical mergers Diversions
happened. disappoint antitrust
6 Regional News 36 Outliers
experts.
Intermountain receives 10 Politics Some condom wrappers with
$50 million donation Healthcare industry 16 Public health cheeky phrases got the thumbs
for pediatric project. spent big on lobbying U.S. hospitals advised down from Utah’s governor for use
before year-end to prepare for Wuhan in an HIV awareness campaign.
spending deal. coronavirus.
A congressional advisory panel said policymakers will need
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to focus on how to improve care coordination and align state-level
Medicaid policies and programs to speed up a reduction in the number
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, the lawyer leading the of babies born with neonatal abstinence syndrome.
charge to defend the Affordable Care Act against a challenge by the Several conservative advocacy groups last week formed a coalition
Trump administration and a group of GOP states, said proponents of opposing any solution to protect consumers from surprise medical bills
the landmark law should not begin panicking yet about its fate. that uses benchmark payments, an approach that providers disdain.
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