Chris Anderson
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday announced it will increase payment rates under its Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) by 1.9 percent and its Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) payments by 1.6 percent in 2012.
CareFirst BlueCross Blue Shield and Cardinal Health Specialty Solutions have announced a joint effort to create a clinical pathways program for rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a chronic inflammatory disease that affects more than 2.1 million people annually.
Humana Inc. this morning released financial results for its third quarter that showed net profits up more than 13 percent compared to its third quarter 2010 results.
Medicare Part B premiums in 2012 will be more than 6 percent less than was projected earlier this year by the Medicare Trustees.
On Monday, Cigna announced it had reached an agreement to purchase Tennessee-based HealthSpring for $3.8 billion in cash, a deal aimed at jumpstarting Cigna’s presence in the Medicare Advantage market.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on Thursday released the final regulations for accountable care organizations (ACOs), which contain major revisions from the draft regulations released earlier this year.
Administration officials including Health and Human Service Secretary Kahtleen Sebelius and CMS Administrator Donald Berwick, MD, Tuesday announced new proposed rules to eliminate obsolete and redundant government healthcare regulations that could save hospitals and providers $1.1 billion annually and more than $5 billion over five years.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services made official on Friday what many had expected: it is dropping its efforts to implement the CLASS Act.
A new five-year research deal between health insurer Humana and pharmaceutical company Pfizer will see researchers from the two companies work to reduce inefficiencies in the delivery of healthcare to seniors suffering from a range of chronic conditions.
Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute (HCI3) has released a new version of its episode of care analysis freeware aimed at helping providers wanting to take part in the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation's (CMMI) Bundled Payments for Care Improvement initiative.