Chris Anderson
WellNet Health Plans announced earlier this week partnerships with two of Eastern Pennsylvania's largest provider networks, as the company launches a new self-insurance service aimed at small and mid-sized employers.
A recent survey by the National Senior Citizens Law Center found that many Medicare Advantage plans and Medicare Part D plans are not publishing marketing materials in Spanish as required by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid under their provider contracts.
Six prominent healthcare organizations and the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice today announced a first-of-its-kind collaboration to share data on costs, outcomes and quality in a broad effort to improve clinical outcomes while reducing costs.
More than 18.3 million adults aged 50 to 64 are expected to see significant improvement in their health insurance protections as provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act are implemented in 2014, according to a new report from the Commonwealth Fund.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said last week that the 10 physician group practices participating in year four of the Medicare pay-for-performance demonstration project recorded estimated savings of $38.7 million in Medicare expenditures.
Tenet Healthcare has rejected an unsolicited $3.3 billion dollar stock and cash buyout offer from Community Health Systems, saying the offer was opportunistic, undervalued the Dallas-based healthcare network and didn't adequately reflect the company's prospect for future growth.
As expected, the Senate has unanimously approved a 12-month postponement of Medicare payment cuts to physicians that were set to kick in January 1, a move widely applauded by physicians' groups and senior advocates that have desperately lobbied Capitol Hill in recent weeks.
The Senate has reached a tentative deal to delay scheduled 25 percent Medicare pay cuts to physicians for one year, a deal that is expected to cost more than $19 billion. A vote on the measure could happen as early as today.
A study by the Lewin Group, conducted for the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association, indicates Medicaid could save $30 billion over 10 years in pharmacy expenses by transitioning away from its current predominant fee-for-service payment model.
The number of people enrolled in either a consumer-driven health plan or high-deductible health plan reached 22 million in 2010, according to the nonpartisan Employee Benefit Research Institute.