Healthcare Finance Staff
Despite HHS Secretary nominee Sylvia Mathews Burwell getting asked some hard-line questions from lawmakers at a Senate hearing, she did receive overwhelming bipartisan support.
If the contract between Highmark and UPMC expires in six months, western Pennsylvania may become a case study for what some think is the future of American healthcare -- consolidated integrated delivery networks.
Amid the rise of high-deductible health plans and the growing prevalence and burden of chronic diseases, some argue that it may time to rethink the concept and regulation of preventive services.
Once a business on the fringes, the individual insurance market is getting more focus from large insurers like Humana and Health Net.
After an uproar from consumers facing the highest premiums in the nation, Colorado's insurance commissioner is offering to revamp the geographic rating system and to implement it lickity-split.
Private health insurers have become so concentrated that there are only one or two major carriers competing in most states today. In spite of increasing demands on our financially stretched health sector, private insurers are not held to the same antitrust standards as other commercial businesses. That needs to change.
Although they're not expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, Texas, Florida and other states are expanding managed care, bringing insurers opportunities as well as challenges, including competition from provider-based health plans.
Despite a booming state economy, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Dakota is booking huge losses, with more potentially to come from a botched contract, leaving the board looking for fresh leadership to bring a turnaround.
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is hoping a cost-analysis system from their Italian transplant hospital will become the future of cost measurement here in the United States.
Amid the many mergers and acquisitions sweeping through healthcare, some raising the ire of anti-trust regulators, four health systems in greater Philadelphia are taking a different tack in a bid to integrate care and lure new insurance contracts.