Reimbursement
Conventional wisdom is that cutting Medicare rates shifts the burden to the private sector, but an intriguing article in Health Affairs reaches a counterintuitive conclusion.
Cigna has announced that it will enlist the help of MDLIVE, a developer of telehealth technology and services, to offer eligible health plan members round-the-clock online video consultations with internal medicine, family practice and pediatric doctors.
Congressional Republicans are proposing new ideas for changing Medicaid, suggesting models based on the 1996 federal welfare reform law, and proposing a bill that would base federal allocations on population size and patient categories.
A recent policy analysis from the National Institute for Health Care Reform (NIHCR), written by Carrier and other researchers from the center, reviews the various types of quality measurements and discusses ways in which payers can help make quality information more available, reliable and usable.
Over the years, with such large gaps in hospital safety and quality, many public and private payers have been pushing for greater hospital accountability through clinical quality measurement and reporting initiatives.
Kentucky will be the 21st state to expand Medicaid eligibility under the Affordable Care Act, Governor Steve Beshear announced Thursday.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is going to offer clarification on wellness programs and federal nondiscrimination compliance, after several business groups and disability advocates asked for guidance on the issue.
In an effort to take the first steps toward a more transparent pricing structure in the U.S. healthcare market, the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday published nationwide hospital charge data showing wide variations in how much Medicare pays for services in different markets.
Humana has named its first chief medical officer, Roy Beveridge, MD, an oncologist and internist currently working as CMO at McKesson Specialty Health.
If Congress pursues tax reform in the near future, one tax expenditure likely to be considered and possibly adjusted is the exemption for employer-sponsored insurance -- and it's about time, argue researchers at the Urban Institute.