Medicaid expansion programs, newly covered individuals under healthcare insurance exchanges, the rise of big data, and shifts in healthcare delivery models have influenced emergency department and hospital utilization. Some 38 percent of healthcare organizations indicated that utilization of healthcare services has increased at their facility as a result of expanded health insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act. Nearly 86 percent of healthcare organizations have a program to reduce avoidable healthcare utilization, according to the new survey on Reducing Avoidable Healthcare Utilization Survey by the Healthcare Intelligence Network (HIN). The majority of healthcare organizations focus their efforts on reducing avoidable hospitalizations, with 78 percent of healthcare organizations reporting they have a program aimed at this task.

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1. Setting Hospital Prices Can Achieve Greater Savings Than Increasing Competition or Price Transparency
   
   
2. As Insurers End Grace Period for COVID-19 Hospital Costs, Study Estimates Potential Bills
   
   
3. Leveraging Pharmacists to Reduce Cost and Improve Medication Adherence in High-Risk Populations
   
   
4. COVID Community Action Alliance Leverages Resources of Private, Public Entities to Help Vulnerable Communities
   
   
5. Innovative Community Health Partnerships: Clinical Alliances to Reduce Health Disparities in Underserved Populations
   
   
6. Antibody Response May Drive COVID-19 Outcomes
   
   
7. Proactive Care Management in a Top-Performing ACO: Closing Quality and Care Gaps in High-Risk, High-Utilization Populations
   
   
8. Teaming Up to Reduce Atherectomy Rates Across Michigan
   
   
9. CDT & eHI's Proposed Consumer Privacy Framework for Health Data
   
   
10. Care Coordination: Telephonic Interventions Drive Improvements in Clinical Outcomes and Care Quality
    
    
11. Care Coordination in an ACO: Population Health Management from Wellness to End-of-Life
    
    
12. Mental Health App Equally Effective, Half the Cost
    
    
13. Patients Get Essential Telehealth Support through Student-Driven Program
    
    
14. Researchers Recruiting for Wearable Device Study to Help Detect COVID-19 Upon Infection
    
    
15. Study Shows 'Alarming Gaps' in Treatment of Patients with Diabetes, Heart Disease
    
    
16. Low-Value Care Among Medicare Recipients Drops Only Marginally Despite Effort to Curb Practices
    
    
17. New Data Platform to Help Deliver Personalized Medicine, Advance Health Equity, and Improve Patient Outcomes
    
    

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