Healthcare Finance Staff
President Barack Obama roused an enthusiastic crowd in support of his landmark health reform in Maine on Thursday, touting a new course that will "build on the system of private health insurance that we already have
Interview with James Lee, chief cinancial officer, Adventist HealthCare, Rockville, Md.
Commentary with Manish Choudhary, a principal in the Health Care Providers Practice at Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP, and Keedick Coulter, a senior manager in the Health Care Providers Practice at Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP.
Commentary by Niklaus Fincher, vice president of purchased services, sales & capital at VHA Inc.
The Medicare recovery audit contracting (RAC) project has some accountability, integrity and reliability shortcomings, according to a new report issued by the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
President Barack Obama signed the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 on Wednesday. The law is the companion to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that he signed into law on March 23.
Forty-eight upstate New York hospitals earned more than $22 million in quality improvement incentive payments from Excellus BlueCross BlueShield as part of the health insurer's Hospital Performance Incentive Program.
Launched in 2004, the program uses nationally recognized standards and guidelines to address specific areas for improvement, including clinical outcomes, patient safety, patient satisfaction and efficiency.
"Aetna is dedicated to helping people achieve health and financial security, and we believe fostering a healthy environment is an important part of this mission," reads the health insurer's environmental policy statement. "We are committed to limiting our environmental impact by reducing our energy consumption and the use of other resources… because we recognize the impact of a clean environment on the health of our members."
American Well, which offers Web-based physician visits for members of health plans in Hawaii and Minnesota, has landed another contract closer to home.
NaviNet, the country's largest real-time healthcare communications network, has announced a partnership with major health insurers in New Jersey to build a multi-payer portal as a "one-stop shop" for physicians to communicate directly with an array of health plans.