Chris Anderson
As employers and individuals seek ways to squeeze more value out of their healthcare dollars, their demand for solid pricing and quality data is growing. Bob Kocher, a partner at venture capital firm Venrock and a former special assistant to the president for healthcare and economic policy in the Obama administration, will detail the path toward better pricing and quality data on Wednesday, June 19, at the Healthcare Financial Management Association's ANI 2013 in Orlando, Fla.
A report issued June 6 by the Kaiser Family Foundation contends that the medical loss requirement (MLR) of the Affordable Care Act saved health insurance consumers $2.1 billion in 2012.
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.
A preliminary analysis of healthcare cost data released this week by the National Center for Health Statistics shows that fewer families reported difficulty paying for medical expenses in the first half of 2012 compared to the same period a year earlier.
Health insurer Priority Health has announced it has contracted with Healthcare Blue Book to publish cost and quality information for more than 300 procedures by facility and physician for its insurance members in Michigan.
The cost of healthcare in 2013 for a family of four receiving health benefits through an employer-sponsored preferred provide organization (PPO) now exceeds $22,000 per year, according to the Milliman Medical Index (MMI) published this week by consulting and actuarial firm Milliman Inc.
Emergency departments are now responsible for half of all inpatient admissions and accounted for nearly all the increases in admissions between 2003 and 2009, according to a new report from Rand Corporation.
A new analysis of more than 3 million claims for Medicare patients found that patients enrolled in a managed Medicare Advantage plan had better health outcomes than those senior enrolled in the traditional fee-for-service Medicare model.
The number of health plans that expect more than half their business will be under value-based models is expected to triple in the next five years according to a new research report released last week by health information network Availity.
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.