Healthcare Finance Staff
Trends in health plan design, consumer utilization of healthcare services and the growing economy may indicate higher premiums on the way and potential changes for insurers' profits, according to an analysis by Aon Hewitt.
To lead a sort of tech worker surge and software code purge for Healthcare.gov, the Obama Administration has brought in a turnaround guy, Jeffrey Zients.
I will be happy to have the Obama Administration do these status reports any time they would like to take them over from me.
As Medicare tightens payments to hospitals, they are cutting their operating costs in order to adjust to reduced revenues instead of shifting costs to private payers, as has been the common belief, a new study by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) found.
Insurance exchange shoppers in 30 states will be able to find at least one health plan operating as both a private insurer and a Medicaid managed care plan -- a good option for lower-income consumers with fluctuating earnings and a solution to the long-time problem of "churn."
After years of decline, enrollment in Texas HMOs has increased 10 percent in each of the last two years, driving strong profits, according to the Texas Health Market Review 2013, an analysis of insurers and hospitals systems operating in the state.
President Obama acknowledges the technical issues with HealthCare.gov, pledging his Administration will resolve them soon and asserting that the distressed web portal is not the only way to shop for affordable health insurance available through the ACA.
A lawyer with deep experience in the pharmaceutical industry is taking the helm of Vermont's Green Mountain Care Board, the regulator charged with controlling healthcare costs and charting a course to single payer.
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield is dishing out $1.5 million in telemedicine grants to help healthcare providers reach people with behavioral health issues with an eye towards improving adherence to their treatments and appointments.
President Obama went on the offensive to defend the benefits of the Affordable Care Act amid a rollout of the federal government's insurance marketplace website that has been disappointing, at best, at the same time that he assembles a sort of health tech dream team to fix the problems before it's too late.