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The largest publicly run health plan in the nation, L.A. Care, is letting customers who do not have traditional bank accounts to pay their health insurance premiums with cash.
With another round of venture capital, Oscar Health Insurance is getting ready to enter new markets and try to become more than just a niche concierge health plan.
Hospital does not charge for any additional care within 30 days of a hip or knee replacement, covering readmissions, infections, rehab and postoperative care — everything except deficiencies in the joint devices.
As federal regulatory initiatives up the ante on information sharing capabilities inside and outside a healthcare organization, the C-Suite is increasingly finding that a comprehensive terminology management strategy is critical.
Despite facing concerns about conflicts of interest, former UnitedHealth Group executive Andy Slavitt wants to blend the best of the private and public sectors in a bid to optimize the $1 trillion-plus health plans covering 140 million Americans.
What constitutes reasonable limitations and management of contraception as an essential preventive health benefit? In the wake of new data and some consumer complaints, HHS may try to resolve gray areas.
When Americans talk, pharmaceutical companies listen. And what they've heard is that initiatives to contain or regulate medical costs get labeled as "rationing," a word with very un-American connotations.
New law reinforces the need for hospitals and health systems to establish strategic ties with physicians, ratings agency says.
Kicking off the spring season of managed care earnings statements, UnitedHealth Group shows that business is bustling for modernizing American healthcare and expanding insurance.
For example, among narrow network plans, median premiums are 10 percent higher for plans with an academic medical center than for those without.