Healthcare Finance Staff
Trying to help thousands of Maryland residents who still can't enroll online, lawmakers are hoping to use the state's high risk pool plan as an emergency, short-term coverage option, while the insurance exchange's problems are fixed.
Maryland officials have reached what analysts say is an unprecedented deal to limit medical spending and abandon decades of expensively paying hospitals for each extra procedure they perform.
In the latest Medicaid waiver, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker secured a number of cost-sharing provisions and a transfer of thousands of beneficiaries to Healthcare.gov, setting the stage for other Republican governors to find an acceptable option.
Eying the growing healthcare market for global citizenry and travelers, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association is helping create what may be the world's largest healthcare provider network.
A new study is adding more questions to the debate over the value of wellness programs, with mixed findings from the food and beverage conglomerate PepsiCo.
The nation's 1,200 nonprofit community health centers receive strong federal support to treat millions of uninsured residents, but still face financial challenges. Some are responding with an unusual strategy -- starting for-profit insurance plans.
Iowa and Nebraska's ACA-supported nonprofit, CoOportunity Health, has sold a lot more health plans in the two states than expected, through a mix of old and new strategies.
Aetna Better Health of Illinois, one of the insurer's Medicaid plans, will test the effect of providing smartphones to home care aides who assist Illinois residents under the state's Integrated Care Program.
With the cost of copayments for cancer pharmaceuticals varying widely, some patients end up skipping doses or stopping some treatments altogether, according to a new study.
If the Obamacare health insurance exchanges are not able to get a good spread of risk -- many more healthy people than sick -- the long-term viability of the program will be placed in great jeopardy.