All these steps are put in place to ensure that a patient truly needs an expensive treatment or medication. But as more guardrails go up, the harder it is for providers to give care or patients to ...

Today, 78% of Americans still avoid or delay medical services, and 29% avoid or delay basic preventative care. When patients miss their appointments, continuity of care is interrupted.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Some steps the Department of Veterans Affairs has taken to address a scandal over long patient waits for care and phony records hiding delays at VA hospitals and clinics ...

Dozens of health insurers covering 257 million people committed to six steps to make it easier for patients to get appropriate care, according to a news release from the industry’s two major ...

Integrated care networks also support better patient outcomes, according to Spisso. At a system like UCLA Health, patients can receive primary and specialty care under the same umbrella.

Private insurers are working to ease the prior authorization process. Here's what that means. UnitedHealthcare, Kaiser Permanente and other major U.S. health insurers say they want to make it ...

1. Senior leadership, including the board, understands that providing a reliably positive patient experience is just as important as providing reliably high-quality clinical care. “Just like we ...

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The first step to improving patient experience is to increase their access to care. The most obvious example of this is extended office hours, including early morning, evening and weekend hours.

Patients with a medical emergency expect life-saving treatment when they arrive at the emergency department (ED), and many receive it. But what happens when hospitals can’t provide the care a ...

Health Care White House takes new steps to safeguard patient privacy by Nathaniel Weixel and Joseph Choi - 04/12/23 6:36 PM ET Close ...