Healthcare Finance Staff
A Google search for "health insurance" brings eHealthInsurance.com as one of the top results -- one reason, eHealth executives say, that state exchanges should follow the federal government in allowing consumers to enroll in subsidized health plans through private web exchanges like eHealthInsurance.
The federal government has uncovered a string of alleged Medicare fraud attempts totalling $223 million and involving 89 individuals in eight cities.
Colorado HealthOP, the state's consumer operated and oriented plan (CO-OP), has signed an agreement with the broker network Warner Pacific to market its health plans, in the first relationship between agents and state health cooperatives.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is looking to more than a dozen dual eligible demonstrations to fulfill the quality improvement and cost saving aims of the Affordable Care Act, although in the five demonstrations approved so far, the exact sources of projected savings remain largely unclear, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Conventional wisdom is that cutting Medicare rates shifts the burden to the private sector, but an intriguing article in Health Affairs reaches a counterintuitive conclusion.
Cigna has announced that it will enlist the help of MDLIVE, a developer of telehealth technology and services, to offer eligible health plan members round-the-clock online video consultations with internal medicine, family practice and pediatric doctors.
Congressional Republicans are proposing new ideas for changing Medicaid, suggesting models based on the 1996 federal welfare reform law, and proposing a bill that would base federal allocations on population size and patient categories.
Over the years, with such large gaps in hospital safety and quality, many public and private payers have been pushing for greater hospital accountability through clinical quality measurement and reporting initiatives.
Kentucky will be the 21st state to expand Medicaid eligibility under the Affordable Care Act, Governor Steve Beshear announced Thursday.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is going to offer clarification on wellness programs and federal nondiscrimination compliance, after several business groups and disability advocates asked for guidance on the issue.