Fred Bazzoli
A new survey indicates employers are watching their employees' healthcare spending in an effort to hold down rising healthcare costs. Survey results released Monday by Mercer...
Medicare beneficiaries who are poor, old, chronically ill or have low incomes are disproportionately affected by out-of-pocket costs under the federal program, according to a study by The Commonwealth...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has responded to a challenge to provide savings information on a competitive bidding process it's implementing for durable medical equipment....
Congress is seeking a bigger role in plans by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to implement bidding among durable medical equipment suppliers. On Wednesday, members of the...
In advance of its annual meeting in Marietta, Ga., the Medical Banking Project has announced the development of standards meant to ensure health data privacy and security for medical banking constitue...
More companies are offering consumer-directed health plans, and those adopting such plans are seeing their healthcare costs drop, according to results of a recent survey. The numbe...
Cigna HealthCare has expanded the number of retail clinics for which it covers treatment this week by announcing the addition of a chain with sites in Arkansas and Texas. Cigna announ...
A lawsuit filed Tuesday against the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services seeks to stop the federal agency from implementing a regulation that would restrict how states fund Medicaid programs and p...
One member of the Senate is predicting that a "stealth provision" for health issues in the fiscal 2009 budget resolution now being reconciled is likely to result in a presidential veto....
Two companies are launching an initiative to help state Medicaid programs save money by avoiding the manual recovery of pharmacy claims from commercial insurers. The proprietary pr...