Chris Anderson
The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) announced that it will evaluate a new, more sensitive measurement tool that is intended to improve the care and the outcomes of patients with heart disease and diabetes.
Consumer directed health plans (CDHPs) that offer low premiums and high deductibles have long been touted as a way to encourage consumers to shop for the best healthcare prices since more of their money is at stake. But that assumption may not be true according to new research from the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics and the RAND Corp.
A new report from the Urban Institute shows that the financial burden of out-of-pocket medical costs vary widely from state to state -- and regionally -- and offers a first-of-its-kind look at which state's residents could most benefit from Medicaid expansion.
Under a withering barrage of pressure from the insurance industry, seniors groups and congressional members from both sides of the aisle, CMS on Monday did an about-face and significantly raised its 2014 growth percentage estimate for the Medicare Advantage program.
Highmark Inc. has unveiled a new group health plan that provides incentives for members to use providers that exhibit higher quality outcomes, fewer complications and reduced readmissions.
As the physician shortage continues to grow and changes wrought by health reform begin to take shape, more healthcare providers are moving beyond the use of locum tenens physicians to also using nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs).
The International Federation of Health Plans released its 2012 Comparative Price Report, detailing its annual survey of medical costs per unit in the United States and 11 other developed countries, which again showed average costs in this country far exceed those in the rest of the world.
Medicaid pays for more than 62 percent of all long-term care (LTC) costs in this country so programs to encourage more people to carry long-term care insurance may be needed to lessen the burden to the federal insurance program to the poor.
New research from the Urban Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation shows that hospitals can expect to pull in an additional $293.9 billion dollars between 2013 and 2022 if all states opt to expand Medicaid as outlined in the Affordable Care Act.
A recent survey of physicians in the U.S. by consulting company Deloitte shows that most are worried that the future of the medical profession may be in jeopardy and that the overall performance of the healthcare system in this country is "suboptimal."