Healthcare Finance Staff
Since 2006, Washington State has had its own sort of Independent Payment Advisory Board for public health payers: the Health Technology Assessment Program.
Major payers who announced second-quarter earnings shared profits that exceeded expectations, lower medical costs and a raised outlook for the year.
A former SCAN Health Plan employee's allegations of Medicare Advantage fraud against several insurers and HMOs were deemed too vague by federal judge.
New care and payment models are compelling healthcare provider organizations to seek heath information exchange solutions to help manage shared payment risk and joint responsibility for patient and population outcomes, according to a new report from Chilmark Research.
eHealthInsurance will be working as a web-based broker for the federally-run health insurance exchanges, helping enroll consumers through its websites.
A program developed by the Society of Hospital Medicine and in use by 140 hospitals nationwide has the potential to improve the discharge process and prevent avoidable rehospitalizations, according to a new study published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.
Georgia's insurance commissioner is asking federal insurance regulators for more time to review health plans being submitted for the public insurance exchange.
Dubbing population health management "the next HIM frontier," the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) offered health information management professionals waypoints for exploring new career possibilities.
The word is California may end up spending $300 million in insurance exchange advertising, education and outreach -- a sign of just how important insurance enrollment is to the success of the Affordable Care Act.
Medicare patients' chances of being admitted to the hospital or kept for observation depend on what hospital they go to -- even when their symptoms are the same, says a new report by the Department of Health and Human Services Inspector General.