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"Consumers are searching for plans that do more than just pay their medical bills," says an official with Wisconsin's Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, which has launched Anthem Blue Rewards.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has lots of what can objectively be called "patient protections" - at least if one defines "health insurance policyholders” as patients. But most objective observers - and quite a few of the more biased ones - will agree that the PPACA focuses more on health insurance reform than health care reform.
Karen Ignagni, president and CEO of America's Health Insurance Plans, says improvements in healthcare access may come at the expense of cost containment and quality as reform moves forward.
One of the largest recent security breaches of personal health information (PHI), involving 280,000 individuals, is on the surface a "pretty low-risk scenario," says one privacy expert.
Pedro do la Torre explains why the Student Aid and Financial Responsibility Act was packaged with healthcare reform legislation in this video from the Center for American Progress' YouTube channel.
Forty-nine percent of payers questioned believe that Value-Based Insurance Design is the most effective way to improve the performance of Disease Management (DM) and Wellness programs. This, according to a late summer poll conducted by the Gantry Group LLC in conjunction with Healthcare Payer News.
If Congress had known in 1965 how expensive Medicare would become, it might not have approved the program in the first place. So Lyndon Johnson made sure it didn’t know.
Lest the healthcare industry not realize this simple fact: Although this does not garner much in the way of media attention, ICD-10 promises to improve the business of healthcare in numerous ways.
The Medical Group Management Association has released the results of its annual survey of member satisfaction with major health plans, which shows Medicare Part B topping the list in most of the categories.
Healthcare reform is a hot topic at this years’ Medical Group Management Association Annual Conference in New Orleans. Everyone is playing the waiting game, but much speculation has been heard during educational sessions.