by admin | Jul 13, 2020 | Healthcare Costs, Readmission, Readmission Rates, Readmissions, SDOH, Uncategorized
Health care spending in the U.S. has been on a constant rise and as of December 2019, accounts for approximately 17.7% of the national GDP, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Costs associated with patients’ hospital readmissions is a...
by admin | Mar 1, 2017 | Data Analytics, GIS, Health IT, Healthcare Costs, Medical Transportation, Opioid Abuse, TCM Award
We received word today that HSR has been nominated for the Maryland Tech Council’s (TCM) Emerging Company award, based in large part on our GIS platform, GeoHealth Dashboard. We are truly honored and humbled by this nomination. The GeoHealth Dashboard is a Geographic...
by admin | Jul 11, 2016 | CMS, Health Policy, Healthcare Costs, Medicare, site-neutral payments
In 2013, Medicare learned through a Congressional report prepared by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) that it was paying substantially more for certain medical procedures in an outpatient setting than the program paid for procedures performed in a...
by admin | Feb 23, 2016 | Healthcare Costs, Medical Transportation, Readmission, Readmission Rates
Up until recently, most discussions on improving the US healthcare system focused almost solely on medical care. However, non-medical factors may lead to poor health and poor health outcomes. These factors, called social determinants of health, have only recently...
by admin | Feb 16, 2016 | Data Analytics, Healthcare Costs, Privacy
Escalating healthcare costs are driving companies to collect and analyze “big data” on their employees in an effort to predict who may be at risk of expensive health complications and encourage those employees to alter their behavior to make healthier life choices...
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