Healthcare Finance Staff
Humana has named its first chief medical officer, Roy Beveridge, MD, an oncologist and internist currently working as CMO at McKesson Specialty Health.
If Congress pursues tax reform in the near future, one tax expenditure likely to be considered and possibly adjusted is the exemption for employer-sponsored insurance -- and it's about time, argue researchers at the Urban Institute.
CMS's Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (CCIIO) has outlined the roles for traditional insurance brokers and web-based brokers assisting customers in public exchanges.
An analysis from HealthPocket raises the specter that individuals who obtain health coverage under expanded Medicaid starting in 2014 will have to dig to find a clinician who will treat them.
Electronic health records, when used correctly, produce more accurate documentation leading to more complete coding, and ultimately, more accurate reimbursement claims, according to Sue Bowman, senior director of coding policy and compliance of the American Health Information Management Association.
Every week, I get an email from the Maryland Health Connection -- the state run health insurance exchange. Maryland is one of a minority of states that are building their own Affordable Care Act ("ObamaCare") exchange.
Cigna Corp. announced its net earnings fell to $57 million or 20 cents per share in the first quarter 2013 down from $371 million or $1.28 per share last year, largely the result of a previously announced $507 million charge from its Febraury reinsurance deal with Berkshire Hathaway.
Patient Privacy Rights appointed Adrian Gropper, MD as its first chief technology officer. Gropper is an expert in the regulated medical device field, an experienced medical informatics executive, and he has a long record of contributing to the development of state and national health information standards, according to a PPR news release.
West Virginia is the latest state deciding to expand Medicaid eligibility under the Affordable Care Act, opening the state-federal insurance program to an additional 91,500 low-income residents, while also expanding managed care.
Healthcare costs in Vermont grew by a modest 1.5 percent in 2011 -- a positive sign, say members of the Green Mountain Care Board, but not cause for celebration, especially considering other recent findings of hospital cost-shifting from public-payers to commercial health plans.