Healthcare Finance Staff
As insurance exchanges, subsidies for low-income earners and a raft of health and insurance regulations get underway, the U.S. could learn from similar reforms and programs enacted in Switzerland and the Netherlands -- even as those countries still have problems to sort out, a Health Affairs study suggests.
The Center for Technology and Aging has launched an online mHealth Toolkit that officials say offers key resources to organizations that want to develop a best-in-class mHealth program for chronic disease management.
The Department of Health and Human Services has released an enhanced National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health and Health Care -- a blueprint meant to help organizations improve healthcare quality in serving diverse communities in the U.S.
Aetna posted first quarter 2013 earnings of $495 million or $1.50 per share -- a 12 percent year over year increase -- as membership continues to grow and is expected to reach 18.4 million by year's end.
Vermont health officials have a challenging task explaining to consumers the details and benefits of the state health insurance exchange without being able to say much about how insurance and healthcare will or will not change in 2017, when Governor wants to transition to a single payer system.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposed April 26 its fiscal 2014 Medicare payment schedule. Included in the proposal are payment cuts to hospitals that treat uninsured individuals and slightly higher rates for acute care and long-term care hospitals. The proposal also prepares the groundwork for a program that imposes a penalty on facilities that lag on reducing the frequency of hospital-acquired conditions.
ConnectedLiving, a mission-based organization helping senior citizens live richer, more connected lives through the use of technology, today announced a partnership with CDW Healthcare, a provider of technology solutions for healthcare. Together both organizations will deliver the technology, services and training necessary to get entire senior living communities online.
When 21-year-old Mike Kelly (not his real name) set out on his bicycle one evening in Durango, Colorado, he had no intention of ending up in a hospital. A collision with an automobile changed those plans. Fortunately, Durango is a ski mecca where broken bones are almost a way of life. With all that practice, doctors there have evolved their practice into a sort of natural center of excellence for treating bone injuries.
Five members of the Senate Finance Committee, including outgoing Montana Senator and Affordable Care Act architect Max Baucus, say they plan to draft policy proposals for reducing Medicare and Medicaid fraud and abuse based on input from more than 100 healthcare organizations.
The Oregon House has unanimously passed a bill that tries to take a step towards limiting Medicaid "churn" -- a problem some think may grow under expanded Medicaid and insurance exchange coverage, with individual and family incomes fluctuating in an uncertain economy.