Patty Enrado
BENTONVILLE, AK – Critics agree that the changes Wal-Mart has made in its 2008 healthcare benefits for associates are an improvement. But there are far more inherent problems with the...
Voluntary employee benefit associations, or VEBAs, have been around since the late 1920s, but the size of General Motors' contribution to the healthcare trusts for the United Auto Workers, or UAW, is...
NEW ROCHELLE, NY – New York’s Westchester County Department of Health is ditching an eight-page, paper-based application that residents have filled out to enroll for public health...
SAN FRANCISCO – Blue Shield of California (BSC) and Kaiser Permanente studies have shown that their respective home-based care coordination programs have delivered a clear return on inves...
AUGUSTA, ME – Dana Connors, president of the Maine State Chamber of Commerce, was looking for a way to help member businesses deal with the staggering need for and cost of healthcare. He found a...
CLEVELAND – Pricing transparency and the increasing rise of self-pay are making significant impacts on cash flow management for hospitals and large physician practices, experts say....
CINCINNATI – Bloomington, Ind., and Clark and Champaign counties in Ohio announced the launch of their community health information exchanges, or HIEs, in September. By leveragi...
When the landmark 1999 Institute of Medicine report To Err is Human revealed that tens of thousands of people die each year from medical errors, the news was not a surprise to the profession, said Elizabeth Summy, executive director of the American Society of Healthcare Risk Management (ASHRM).
WASHINGTON – Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee are the latest payers to achieve certification for the process of verifying health insurance coverag...
TARRYTOWN, NY – As the chosen pilot site, Hudson Health Plan implemented the Case Management Society of America’s guidelines and Web-based tracker in June 2006. A year lat...