Healthcare Finance Staff
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee has partnered with Health Dialog, a Boston-based provider of healthcare analytics and decision support, to deliver 24/7 health coaching services to 42,000 Medicare Advantage members in the Volunteer State.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana and a majority of the state's acute care inpatient hospitals are teaming up in an effort to prevent serious medical errors.
Washington and New Mexico Medicaid programs will receive thousands of dollars in federal matching funds for state planning activities necessary to implement the electronic health record incentive program established by the American Recovery
Medical leaders say President Barack Obama's nomination of Donald Berwick to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is the right choice for implementing the cost-cutting reforms that the two government programs face.
Healthcare IT leaders are hailing President Obama's nomination of Donald Berwick, MD, to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services as a signal of the administration's commitment to quality.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is expanding its current Medicare provider enrollment system to make it easier for physicians to register to receive meaningful use incentives.
As much as 10 percent of America's annual $2 trillion healthcare bill is tied to fraud, waste or abuse. A new partnership by two leading healthcare IT vendors aims to tackle that problem.
Today at the World Health Care Congress, American Well, the Boston-based maker of online care systems, announced the next step in its mission to better connect patients with doctors, irrespective of location.
Despite the increasing clout of HMOs in the 1990s, hospitals maintained a dominant position in determining healthcare pricing decisions.
If Donald Berwick, MD, is confirmed as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, he and David Blumenthal, MD, the national coordinator for health IT, would be a "dream team" in pursuing a coherent national healthc