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The executive director at Nevada's health insurance exchange is stepping down amid poor enrollment and website glitches, with the board now mulling a switch to the federal marketplace.
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield (CareFirst) has pledged to invest more than $1.3 million in four initiatives designed to expand the use of telemedicine to treat patients with behavioral healthcare needs in underserved urban and rural areas of Maryland and Washington, D.C.
3M Health Information Systems will acquire Treo Solutions, which develops healthcare data analytics and business intelligence technology, for an undisclosed sum.
Physicians are notoriously slow to introduce technology into their practices, and yet, some are beginning to adopt the controversial e-currency, bitcoins.
After two other states got a federal OK for the Medicaid "private option," Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett is asking to use a similar version of the policy, with more cost-sharing, plus requirements that have never been approved anywhere before.
We have reached the 10-year anniversary of Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), a health insurance option signed into law by President George W. Bush. Although consumer initiatives such as Medical Savings Accounts (MSAs) had been in effect well before this law, industry watchers consider 2004 the unofficial beginning of consumerism in U.S. healthcare.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan has expanded its value-based hospital reimbursement model with five more health systems in the state, representing 24 hospitals, for a total of seven systems.
A new study from Stanford University has turned the concept of patient dumping on its head. It finds that hospitals are less likely to transfer critically injured patients to trauma centers if they have health insurance.
Eying unfilled parts of the consumer health market, UnitedHealth Group could end up owning a digital health company that's servicing its rivals' clients, and make another Ivy League dropout a millionaire before age 30 in the process.
Some people will invariably take this as proof that ICD-10 will not be pushed back any further -- while others will suggest it serves as evidence that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services cannot be taken at its word.