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U.S. healthcare prices increased in January 2013, rising 0.2 percent over December 2012 prices, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Consumers in many instances face higher health insurance premiums than the price originally quoted them on their plan applications, according to new analysis from insurance-comparison website HealthPocket.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that state and local government-owned corporations are not always immune from federal antitrust laws, allowing the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to continue its challenge of a merger by two health systems owned by a Georgia county hospital authority.
The New Jersey Hospital Association is expanding an innovative "gainsharing" pilot program designed to improve healthcare efficiency and reduce costs by promoting better coordination and collaboration among New Jersey hospitals and physicians.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed several dozen regulatory updates to Medicare Advantage and Part D prescription drug plans, covering cost sharing, minimum loss ratios, risk adjustment, payment methodologies and other policies.
In order to survive in the ever-changing healthcare marketplace while saddled with new healthcare reform mandates, hospitals around the country must optimize three fundamental components of care delivery: clinical/operational integration, financial integration, and shared infrastructure and governance.
The Healthcare Group Purchasing Industry Initiative has released its seventh annual "Report to the Public," which finds that group purchasing organizations (GPOs) put the promotion of innovation and technology among their top priorities.
Robert Master, MD, has been trying to create a primary care model for poor, elderly and disabled patients in greater Boston since the late 1970s, and in 2003 he co-founded the not-for-profit Commonwealth Care Alliance, a delivery system for Medicaid-Medicare dual eligible, developmentally and physically disabled patients.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed several dozen regulatory updates to Medicare Advantage and Part D prescription drug plans, covering cost sharing, minimum loss ratios, risk adjustment, payment methodologies and other policies.
Medicare patients can anticipate paying considerably less for their diabetes and other products starting in July when the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services expands its competitive bidding for durable medical equipment (DME) and mail-order program but the DME industry continues to point out problems with the program.