Chris Anderson
Tenet Healthcare has reached an agreement with Medicaid managed care program Keystone Mercy Health Plan that covers Hahnemann University Hospital and St. Christopher's Hospital for Children in Philadelphia.
The Mayo Clinic has created the Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery, a new initiative that will focus on creating improved approaches to how healthcare is delivered.
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Tufts Health Plan have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore a merger of the two health plans.
Sentara Healthcare of Norfolk, Va., has been named the top integrated healthcare network in the country, according to the SDI 2011 Top 100 IHNs. This is the 14th year that SDI has ranked healthcare networks on their performance and degree of integration.
The Office of the Inspector General has reported that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' policy of prepayment to Medicare Advantage plans allowed the private insurers to earn and retain more than $450 million in interest income in 2007.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has announced that 3 million Medicare beneficiaries have saved money on prescription medications as a result of the Affordable Care Act, via $250 rebate checks mailed to beneficiaries in the so-called "doughnut hole" coverage gap.
The Arizona Legislature on Thursday authorized Gov. Jan Brewer to apply for a federal waiver with the Department of Health and Human Services that seeks to drop 280,000 people from the state's Medicaid rolls.
Texas lawmakers under Republican leadership unveiled a budget proposal this week to cover the years 2012-2013 that would cut Medicaid reimbursements to long-term care facilities by 33 percent and payments to hospitals by 10 percent.
In an effort to be one of the first states to qualify for federal Medicaid EHR implementation incentive payments, the Texas Health and Human Services Commission has contracted with the CGI Group for its turnkey Medicaid Electronic Health Record solution.
Community Physicians for Indiana and the Deaconess Clinic have joined the Integrated Research Network operated by HealthCore, the first two health systems in the state to participate in the nationwide collaborative aimed at providing data to improve treatment costs and outcomes.