Private investors are becoming increasingly active in healthcare acquisitions, which may maximize the purchase price when practices decide to sell, but there are downsides to these transactions compared to be absorbed into a hospital or health system.

The new administration at CMS and HHS has signaled it wants to take a different path on value-based care models. Some have been clear actions, like ending mandatory bundled payment models in cardiac care. The next step may be more driven by stakeholders, as CMS recently released a request for information (RFI) asking what new models developed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) should look like.

Providing pediatric patients with a virtual reality (VR) tour of the operating room (OR) before receiving anesthesia could reduce preoperative anxiety, according to a study published in British Journal of Surgery.

A June 2016 study published in JAMA Internal Medicine that found “modest savings on average” from accountable care organizations (ACOs) has been retracted and replaced after errors were discovered in the CMS data used by researchers.

Roughly 21 percent of adults in America have personally experienced medical errors, according to a national survey conducted by the IHI/NPSF Lucian Leape Institute and NORC at the University of Chicago.

The JPMorgan Chase Institute Healthcare Out-of-pocket Spending Panel (JPMCI HOSP) included 2.3 anonymized Chase customers from 18 to 64 years old between 2013 and 2016. The study examined trends in out-of-pocket healthcare spending in 23 of the 50 United States and their effects on household financial standings.

Cuts to Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) payments, a delay in state payments and lack of help from the city are all being blamed for the financial predicament of NYC Health + Hospitals, the largest public hospital system in the U.S.

Hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs) in Florida would be required to provide information to patients about the potential costs of procedures under a proposed state regulation that the Florida Hospital Association (FHA) considers outside the state’s authority.