Healthcare Finance Staff

Lawmakers in Florida are considering requiring private health insurers to cover telehealth services.

Annual premiums for employer-sponsored family health coverage held to the recent moderate trend, climbing to $16,351 this year, or 4 percent more than last year, according to the Employer Health Benefits Survey released Tuesday by the Kaiser Family Foundation. 

A few Penn State professors are protesting a new policy requiring employees to complete health risk assessments, showing the tensions that penalty-driven wellness plans can bring.

As the Department of Health and Human Services invests $67 million in insurance exchange navigators and $150 million more in enrollment assistance, some attorneys general are raising privacy and fraud concerns.

Florida's Shands Healthcare has agreed to pay $26 million to settle allegations that six of the network's hospitals had billed Medicare, Medicaid and the Department of Defense's TRICARE healthcare program for inpatient procedures that should have been processed as outpatient services, the Justice Department said Monday.

Former Director, White House Office of Health Reform, and former Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Partner, Consonance Capital Partners, New York City

Policy advisors for Delaware Governor Jack Markell are crafting plans to introduce accountable care models into the state's payment and provider systems with support from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

Massachusetts' first annual report on the state healthcare market shows high costs putting pressure on consumers, just as the state is embracing alternative payment models.

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield has jumped head-first into the deep waters of mobile health. The health insurance giant has selected Cognizant, a mobile communication company, to provide a platform for getting mobile apps to its 3.3 million members.

Ninety percent of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years and the healthcare industry is becoming a big contributor to this data deluge.