Anthony Brino
Aetna posted a 12 percent earnings increase in the first quarter of 2013 and has raised its fiscal year outlook.
As Arkansas prepares to implement its plan to expand Medicaid to those up to 138 percent of FPL via private plans on the state HIX, it still leaves many policy and cost questions unanswered.
With the Affordable Care Act entering the home stretch of implementation, U.S. Senators are still trying to understand the costs and benefits of insurance market reforms, while diagnosing problems in the greater healthcare system.
The American Medical Association has challenged a Georgia court’s blocking of a prompt payment law and in the process has raised questions about some of the pillars of federal preemption under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) as it relates to third-party administrators and self-funded insurance plans.
As President Barack Obama takes his budget and deficit-reduction proposals to Congress and the public, the Department of Health and Human Services has unveiled its proposed budget for the 2014 fiscal year.
North Carolina Republican Gov. Pat McCrory unveiled what he called a "comprehensive framework for reform" for Medicaid that would offer recipients integrated physical and behavioral healthcare while simplifying billing and administration for providers.
Bruce Greenstein, secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals will step down amid state and federal investigations into a $185 million Medicaid contract awarded to a company where he briefly worked.
The Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights (OCR) says it will survey the 115 HIPAA-covered entities that were audited last year to gain insight about their audit experiences.
In the first year of new medical loss ratio (MLR) requirements, insurers spent less than 1 percent of premium revenue on rebates or quality improvements, according to an analysis by the Commonwealth Fund.
A bill to encourage mediation in disputes over medical errors is expected to be signed into law in what supporters say is a step -- if small -- in the direction of malpractice reform.