Reimbursement
Starting next year, the Affordable Care Act sets maximum limits on how much consumers can be required to pay out-of-pocket annually for their medical care. But some people with high drug costs may find the limits don't protect them yet.
While more and more physician practices are focusing on patient-centered care, more support efforts are needed, according to recent report by MGMA-ACMPE.
A TransUnion report released today finds that average patient out-of-pocket costs for healthcare have grown almost by 22 percent in a year.
The Washington D.C. Council has temporarily approved a plan by the D.C. Health Benefits Exchange Authority requiring that all small group health plans be sold exclusively in the exchange starting in 2015.
The Center for Connected Health and the Center for Technology and Aging have launched a new tool to gauge the return on investment for remote patient monitoring technologies for patients with heart disease.
More employers are considering adopting strategies that will help them be more efficient in the way they pay for healthcare services to slow rising costs, according to new survey data from human resources consulting firm Aon Hewitt.
More employers are considering adopting strategies that will help them be more efficient in the way they pay for healthcare services to slow rising costs, according to new survey data from human resources consulting firm Aon Hewitt.
In recent publicized efforts to get more information to patients about their own medical history, the OpenNotes effort has resulted in providers adding access to physician's notes in online portals at 3 high profile U.S. healthcare organizations.
The public health insurance exchange experience, for the executives, policy makers, IT workers and regulators managing them, has largely been of the designing and building a ship at the same time -- and months before it's set to cross an ocean.
Growing enrollment in high-deductible health plans (HDHPs) will be a major driver of the move toward healthcare price transparency and that move is expected to boost revenue for companies supporting that shift to $1.9 billion by 2016.