Chris Anderson
Today is the final day of the Healthcare Finance News Virtual Conference & Expo. While there are fewer sessions today, that should provide attendees with the opportunity to come by the exhibit hall to hear about the offerings of our nine exhibitors. Hall hours today are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. CDT.
The Healthcare Finance News Virtual Conference & Expo opens today and continues tomorrow. While there is no shortage of valuable sessions, dropping in on just presentations without stopping by the exhibition hall may limit your ability to get all you can from the event.
Most purchasing managers have a firm handle on what they spend for supplies, as well as ways to save a few pennies per unit on items like syringes.
With a dozen education sessions and opening and closing keynote addresses at the Healthcare Finance News Virtual Conference & Expo running Wednesday and Thursday, there is no shortage of valuable and actionable information to help make your businesses better prepared for the upcoming changes in healthcare. Yet limiting yourself to just the sessions without dropping by the exhibition hall may limit your ability to get all you can from the event.
Whether they're called accountable care organizations or patient-centered medical homes, healthcare organizations will be transforming in the coming years to new methods of providing care. But are all organizations ready for the changes needed to get there?
According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, Medicare Advantage plans with high quality ratings are clustered in certain states, leaving beneficiaries in a handful of states with few, if any, options for choosing a highly rated plan.
CIGNA and the Piedmont Physicians Group, part of Atlanta-based Piedmont Healthcare have launched an accountable care organization pilot program, designed to provide a comprehensive, accountable and collaborative approach to medical care.
According to a report in the Sept. 7 issue of the Los Angeles Times, California state insurance regulators are seeking fines against PacifiCare for problems including failure to pay doctors, loss of medical records, mismanaged claims and ignoring calls to correct those problems.
Innovent Oncology, a division of US Oncology, has engaged the actuarial and consulting firm Milliman to help develop risk contracting methodologies - including episode rates, bundled payments and capitation - to help identify potential areas where oncologists can improve quality of care while lowering health costs.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has announced that nearly 2,000 companies and unions have been accepted into the Early Retiree Reinsurance Program, which was rolled out on Aug. 31.