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Payers wondering about competition under health reform might look to Denver, where underwriting regulations and a fair amount of provider concentration has left the commercial insurance market mostly divided into quarters.
Last week, I received my weekly email update from the Maryland health insurance exchange:
Maryland Health Connection completed its Final Detailed Design Review (FDDR) live system demo on Thursday, May 30. The FDDR is a federal stage-gate required of all state-based exchanges.
Disruptive innovation challenges the status quo, drives change and creates new markets. But what does disruptive innovation mean in regard to health benefits and healthcare delivery? A few companies tried to answer that question at the 2013 AHIP Institute Thursday.
Disruptive innovation challenges the status quo, drives change and creates new markets. But what does disruptive innovation mean in regard to health benefits and healthcare delivery?
Payers and employers are demonstrating that wellness programs can curb increases in healthcare costs and improve workforce productivity as employees become more involved in their health.
"Healthcare consumerism" is a phrase that has been bandied about for years by health insurance plans, but in practice it has often meant pushing more financial responsibility onto the patient, rather than reconstructing healthcare with the consumer's real interests at heart.
Healthcare experts have differing views on the benefits of consolidation to help reduce costs but agree that most healthcare organizations are moving forward with reform through innovation, and consolidation may be just a step in that direction, according to a session Thursday at the 2013 AHIP Institute on "Shared risk, shared opportunities: Cost containment strategies for an evolving marketplace."
Sounding a theme increasingly common at healthcare industry gatherings, the outgoing CEO of Kaiser Permanente called for fundamental changes to U.S. healthcare's business model during a speech at the 2013 AHIP Institute on Wednesday.
The latest installment of the swooping MGMA Physician Compensation and Production Survey: 2013 Report Based on 2012 Data dubs quality and patient satisfaction as measures expected to have a considerable impact on compensation structures in the coming years.
Sounding a theme increasingly common at healthcare industry gatherings, the outgoing CEO of Kaiser Permanente called for fundamental changes to U.S. healthcare's business model during a speech at the 2013 AHIP Institute on Wednesday.