Healthcare Finance Staff
More employers are considering adopting strategies that will help them be more efficient in the way they pay for healthcare services to slow rising costs, according to new survey data from human resources consulting firm Aon Hewitt.
In recent publicized efforts to get more information to patients about their own medical history, the OpenNotes effort has resulted in providers adding access to physician's notes in online portals at 3 high profile U.S. healthcare organizations.
The public health insurance exchange experience, for the executives, policy makers, IT workers and regulators managing them, has largely been of the designing and building a ship at the same time -- and months before it's set to cross an ocean.
One of the most vexing issues in the Affordable Care Act's implementation is making the individual mandate work with a robust market -- and a large part of that means getting so-called "young invincibles" to buy insurance.
Do I have enough information? While that's a question that tugs on people's minds as they grapple with all sorts of decisions, it may be most persistent, and most significant, to doctors determining how best to treat their patients.
As convergence around the needs of patients and consumers intensifies, payers, providers, and employers are collaborating beyond their traditional boundaries. IBM's Institute for Business Value and the AHIP Foundation's Institute for Health Systems Solutions recently conducted research on this issue and its implications and will release their findings at this week's 2013 AHIP Institute.
The 2013 AHIP Institute will drill down to specific healthcare topics through its concurrent sessions, including one that will explore the "patient-centered financial home," which extends consumer engagement from clinical care delivery to benefits and payments.
The Connecticut Attorney General has reached a settlement with the owner of six dental management and consulting firms accused of Medicaid fraud.
Aetna will include The Leapfrog Group's Hospital Safety Scores in its DocFind online hospital directory to help patients make better decisions about their care.
A federal court has struck down a California "carve in" law requiring Medicaid safety net providers to only dispense drugs purchased at a discount, although the ruling also implied that type of mandate would be permissible with federal approval.