Healthcare Finance Staff
Insuring more people as a direct result of the Affordable Care Act will bump up national health spending in 2014 to a 6.1 percent growth rate, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. But for private health insurance, the spending growth rate will more than double.
Cigna will begin using MyFitnessPal's nutrition, physical activity and weight management platform to enhance its coaching programs. It's a way for the payer to support and meet members where they are as they try to manage their health.
The vast amount of consolidated sensitive information passing through health information exchanges is unprecedented, and will introduce privacy and technology risks that HIX stakeholders need to be vigilant in addressing.
The public insurance marketplace Covered California is preparing its consumer assistance strategies for what will be one of the largest, most diverse insurance markets under the Affordable Care Act.
A long trail of whistleblower lawsuits against the country's two largest medical laboratory services companies may come to an end in Virginia.
Governor Rick Snyder has signed the Healthy Michigan plan into law, making nearly half a million more residents eligible for the state's version of Medicaid expansion, to improve what he described as a combination of cost, quality and access.
Payers and providers can get templates for notices of privacy practices that must be furnished to plan members and patients from the HHS Office for Civil Rights and Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT under the law. The enforcement deadline for the HIPAA Omnibus Rule is Sept. 23.
Touring the state Monday, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett unveiled a new healthcare agenda with a proposal to expand Medicaid eligibility through private health plans, if the federal government is open to new cost-sharing and work requirements.
Seven radiation oncology providers in Pensacola, FL, are settling allegations of improper Medicaid, Medicare and TRICARE billing, and are set to pay a collective $3.5 million to the state and federal governments.
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission is exploring the idea of Medicare designing a supplemental or Medigap plan for seniors that would promote their use of an accountable care organization.