Healthcare Finance Staff
In Medicare Meltdown: How Wall Street and Washington are Ruining Medicare and How to Fix It, ($25, Rowman & Littlefield), authors Rosemary Gibson and Janardan Prasad Singh explore the ties that bind Wall Street and Washington and how that impacts the country's healthcare system. Gibson talked about the book with Healthcare Finance News.
By focusing on reducing early elective deliveries and hospital-acquired infections, a collaborative called Patient Safety First (PSF) has helped California hospitals avoid 3,576 deaths and more than $63 million in unnecessary hospital costs between 2009 and 2012.
Hospitals, universities, Indian tribes, patient advocacy groups and local food banks were among organizations awarded $67 million in federal grants Thursday to help people sign up for coverage in new online health insurance marketplaces that open for enrollment Oct. 1.
The military's TRICARE program is aligning its reimbursement formula for sole community hospitals with Medicare, a policy that'll save an estimated $676 million through 2017.
As employees are expected to pick up more of their healthcare tab and healthcare benefits costs are rising for employers, a new survey assessing the state of HSAs finds that both groups contributed in record amounts over the last year.
Handing a small win to Affordable Care Act opponents, a federal judge is letting the Oklahoma attorney general sue to try to block the federal government's enforcement of the employer and individual mandates.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has settled with Affinity Health Plan, a New York-based managed care plan, for HIPAA violations to the tune of $1,215,780 after a photocopier containing patient information was compromised.
The Labor Department's decision to offer a "grace period" for out-of-pocket limitations in some group health plans has been dubbed the "third health reform delay," but it may have been the first.
UnitedHealthcare's employee wellness rewards program highlights the special role health plans can play in patient engagement, according to research published in Health Affairs.
Federal Medicaid officials are now reviewing and possibly amending Arkansas' waiver application for a Medicaid "private option" -- and as last minute changes to the waiver proposal show, the policy is evolving.