Chris Anderson
Fifteen years in the making, Aurora Health Care recently signed on two of Wisconsin’s largest health plans – Aetna and Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield – to its new Aurora Accountable Care Network, which offers a price guarantee to employers and promises average savings of 10 percent based on past claims expenses.
Just when it seemed the presidential political debate surrounding healthcare would simply be whether to repeal or preserve the Affordable Care Act, Mitt Romney brought Paul Ryan into the mix as his pick for VP.
In late July the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced an unprecedented partnership between the federal government, state officials, private health insurer organizations and a number of other anti-fraud groups focused on preventing healthcare fraud.
A U.S. Census report released this week showed that the ranks of uninsured shrank for the first time since 2007 dropping to 15.7 percent of the population compared with 16.3 percent in 2010 and a separate report showed average insurance rates increased only 4 percent in 2012.
Health Plan Alliance (HAP) along with Cardinal Health Specialty Solutions and oncology consulting firm Physician Resource Management have announced they will work together to launch in Michigan an evidence-based clinical pathways program that is intended to improve the quality and lower the costs of cancer treatment.
A majority of employers that measure the performance of their employee wellness and value-based healthcare programs show a return on investment (ROI), with a significant number showing savings of $3 or more for every dollar spent, according to new research published by the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans (IFEBP).
New York Downtown Hospital will pay a total of $13.4 million in a Medicare and Medicaid fraud settlement that alleged the hospital received claims on an unlicensed inpatient drug detox program and that it paid kickbacks to an out-of-state vendor for referrals to the program.
Tufts Medical Center, the Tufts-owned New England Quality Care Alliance (NEQCA) physicians network and Vanguard Health Systems announced last week it received an $88.5 million loan from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to fund the Minuteman Health Initiative, a member-owned health plan serving Massachusetts.
HealthPartners and Park Nicollet Health Care announced that their boards of directors have signed an agreement to combine the two non-profits to create a comprehensive integrated health system and associated health plan to serve the Twin Cities region and parts of western Wisconsin.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona and non-profit health system Banner Health have announced an equal partnership designed to provide a coordinated Medicare Advantage offering to be known as Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona Advantage.