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Optum Labs, the research center founded by UnitedHealth and Mayo Clinic, has added seven new health organizations, which will join in on data mining research to find innovative ways to improve quality and reduce costs.
National healthcare expenditures grew at an annual rate of 4.1 percent in 2013, according to an analysis by the Altarum Institute. This is the fifth consecutive year of spending growth in the 4 percent vicinity.
Researchers have found that a value-based insurance design test increased medication adherence, but it failed to be cost neutral, suggesting that the business case for VBID may be more convincing over several years or with higher risk patients.
Amid Medicaid expansion and a coming state capitated payment system, a Chicago non-profit health plan created by providers two decades ago is expanding its network and eying growth for the next decade.
Mid-size businesses with 50 to 99 employees will have another year – until 2016 – to provide health insurance to their full-time workers, the second delay associated with the employer mandate by the Obama Administration.
Bernard Tyson, Kaiser Permanente's new CEO and chairman, came to his new roles at the start of what most say will be a challenging year as healthcare reform gears up.
There is a common misconception in healthcare that nearly all value-based care models are one-of-a-kind. If this were true, the lessons learned from these approaches would not be replicable. In truth, while the starting point for value-based care models may be unique for many organizations, they are actually conceptually quite similar.
Consumer advocacy groups are taking on California's medical establishment, trying to expand the power of rate review in a ballot initiative that's already drawing a lot of political money.
There is a common misconception in healthcare that nearly all value-based care models are one-of-a-kind. In truth, while the starting point may be unique for many organizations, value-based models are actually conceptually quite similar.
Lawmakers took another step toward repealing the reviled sustainable growth rate formula that sets physician payment in the Medicare program, but they still haven't figured out how to pay for it.