Chris Anderson
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota has launched a "shared incentive" payment model with four of Minnesota's largest care systems. The model modifies fee-for-service payments to reward quality of care and innovative methods of delivering cost-effective care.
Two Kentucky-based companies, Humana and Norton Healthcare, are launching the region's first commercial Accountable Care Organization.
Congress on Monday agreed to a reprieve of scheduled 23 percent Medicare pay cuts to physicians that would have started December 1. The measure means reimbursement levels will go untouched until January 1.
Pittsburgh-based Highmark will offer a childhood obesity prevention benefit to its members starting in 2011 in collaboration with the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, a program that is expected to help about half a million children.
With two Congressmen-elect already on record as saying they will decline their government health plan when they are seated next month, pressure is building for others who openly campaigned against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to follow suit.
A report from the International Federation of Health Plans on common medical services and procedures in 12 countries shows some cost as much as four times more in the United States than in other developed nations.
Kentucky Insurance Commissioner Sharon P. Clark has ordered insurers selling in the commonwealth's individual health insurance market to offer an annual open enrollment period in January for residents under age 19.
A South Carolina Medical Association survey indicates insurance company protocols often interfere with physicians' ability to provide optimal care for their patients.
The $400,000 grant will support a health disparities pilot aimed at improving diabetes treatment and care for Hispanics and African Americans.
The TriZetto Group has announced plans to enhance its care management and value-based solutions for health plan members and their providers through a strategic partnership with clinical analytics developer MEDai.