Healthcare Finance Staff
Gov. Dannel Malloy said the rollout of Obamacare in Connecticut has been a success -- but it would be a bigger success if the federal health marketplace weren't doing so badly.
Whether or not accountable care organizations should take on more risk after just one year of experience or after three years in the Medicare Shared Savings Program was the issue the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission addressed at its monthly meeting Thursday.
Amid the uproar over President Obama's now untenable "If you like your insurance you can keep it" pledge, California's Insurance Department has obtained a temporary delay for some Blue individual policies on track to sunset in 2014.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has updated a handful of documents in the past week on the controversial regulations surrounding its two-midnight inpatient admissions guidance and patient status reviews.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia is recruiting members with diabetes for a national study testing the viability of an online self-management program, as the Blues and other insurers look for viable approaches to the expensive problem of diabetes.
"Step number one, two, three, four, five and six is really getting the website fixed," Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told both concerned and critical members of Senate Finance Committee, the birthplace of the Affordable Care Act, as Healthcare.gov's problems persisted five weeks after its go-live date.
On May 2, 1961, President John Kennedy set an astonishing challenge for the United States, declaring that by the end of the decade, the U.S. would send a man to the moon. In many ways, the Affordable Care Act is the health insurance industry's own space race, with the goal of insuring every citizen taking the place of, well, going to the moon.
Humana's third-quarter net income fell almost 14 percent, but the company's leaders are maintaining this year's earnings guidance and see revenue increasing in 2014.
Enrollments continue to trickle in. Health plans, with the kind of market share that would have to sign-up 100,000 to 200,000 people for the administration to hit its goal of 7 million people, are generally reporting they have enrolled only about 100 - 200 people over the first 35 days via Healthcare.gov.
Colorado's experiment with accountable care in Medicaid has led to a second year of savings, and other states are taking note.