Healthcare Finance Staff
Amputees against proposed changes to Medicare coverage that would result in less expensive, but inferior, prosthetics being given to patients gathered in Baltimore Wednesday to ask officials to strike down the proposal.
A new report published in the American Journal of Managed Care found that just over half of MSSP ACOs shared plans on how they'll allocate savings.
MeriTalk report claims 11 percent of people who receive government healthcare benefits are not actually eligible.
More than 2 million people with coverage on the health insurance exchanges may be missing out on subsidies that could lower their deductibles, copayments and maximum out-of-pocket spending limits, according to a new analysis by Avalere Health.
Narrow insurance networks are gaining traction across the United States, as insurers have limited options for offering plans at different price points, according to a report by the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Experts say problems seen in September in testing ICD-10 codes could turn into disasters when the new diagnostic code set goes live on October 1.
Though critical access hospitals will continue to earn less, Fitch Ratings this week said it does not expect the financial struggles to affect these hospitals' credit ratings due to their near 100 percent reimbursement from Medicare and political support that will stave off any attempt to cut payments.
Pennsylvania families that faced penalties for Children's Health Insurance Program coverage that did not meet minimum requirements set by the Affordable Care Act are in the clear after Gov. Tom Wolf on Thursday said the state expanded its CHIP program.
The center, which will share space with the Allina Health-operated Minnesota Perinatal Physicians Clinic, was partly financed by a $1 million donation from Mike Ciresi, a Minnesota attorney and former chair of the Children's Foundation, and his wife Ann.
Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker has released details of a healthcare model to replace Obamacare that would give tax credits to seniors to buy their own insurance.