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The Obama Administration has announced another Affordable Care Act delay, this time for small businesses shopping in federally-run insurance exchanges.
Patients with diabetes who received their heart medications by mail were less likely to visit the emergency room than those who picked up prescriptions in person, a study by Kaiser Permanente found.
HealthCare.gov, the government's hobbled health insurance website, is fixed and running smoothly, CMS officials announced Dec. 1 in a rare Sunday telephone news briefing.
After years of trying to clamp down on hospital spending, the federal government wants to get control over what Medicare spends on nursing homes, home health services and other medical care typically provided to patients after they have left the hospital.
Amid increasing provider integration, Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen is putting pressure on health systems to embrace more transparency.
Cigna and Kaiser Permanente of California tied as the top insurers during the third quarter in health rewards company EveryMove's ranking of customer engagement.
As a primer discussion for the 2013 mHealth Summit, mHealth News (@mhealth_news) is hosting a Twitter Chat to discuss the future of mHealth and its role in shaping global health. Taking place at 1 p.m. ET Monday, December 2, the chat will use the hashtag #mHealth13 (the official hashtag for the summit). You can also participate in the chat through the #mHealth13 chat room.
As public insurance exchanges get off to a very rocky start, U.S. insurers and policy makers could learn from some European countries' recent experiences -- and problems -- in requiring and subsidizing citizens to purchase private insurance.
As more insurance companies adopt mobile strategies, Google's payer guru says health insurance as a whole has a lot of work to do following the modern mobile, internet-based consumer.
Consumers are not alone in finding retail clinics an attractive option. Increasingly, hospitals are adding them to their array of services.