Healthcare Finance Staff
Patient engagement and accountable care mean payers and providers have to collaborate on change and also to help patients rethink health and health care -- including death and the quest for a good one.
The Obama administration on June 26 issued a final rule allowing all American Indians and Alaska Natives who are eligible to receive services from an Indian healthcare provider to receive an exemption from the shared responsibility payment if they do not maintain minimum essential coverage under the Affordable Care Act.
When Aetna asked people from three generations -- Millennials, Generation Xers and Baby Boomers -- which was the healthiest, nearly half of the respondents from each group said their generation.
The first study comparing hospital costs for one of the most common surgeries suggests that it's more expensive when paid for by workers compensation than by group insurance.
An analysis from Avalere Health shows that in nine states the second-lowest cost "Silver" premiums appear to be lower than what the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated for 2016.
The hottest letters in healthcare right now are A, C and O. And while together they stand for accountable care organization, industry analysts say providers need to look beyond the acronym in their efforts to build a new business model.
I have been following the news about the National Security Agency (NSA) access to our phone records with great interest. If we as a society don't sort some of this out, we'll see a repeat in the health sector a few years from now.
Some insurers were slow to adopt digital payments in 2012 and the ICD-10 precursor conversion ANSI 5010 reduced some claims resolution, the EHR and medical billing company athenahealth found in its annual review of payer data.
Hoping to get consumers the best prices, the Obama administration is negotiating with insurers looking to sell policies in online health insurance marketplaces this fall, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Monday.
Physician executives say that dealing with rising operating costs and preparing for new payment models that put more financial risk on their practice are the top challenges they face in running a group practice, according to the latest MGMA-ACMPE survey released Tuesday.