Healthcare Finance Staff
Connecticut's health insurance exchange, Access Health CT, has selected HealthPass and bswift to provide services and technology for a choice of health insurance options to small businesses throughout the state.
Consumer advocates and some lawmakers are promoting a new bill they say would save Medicare $141 billion over the next decade by requiring prescription drug rebates for Medicaid-Medicare eligible patients and low-income Medicare beneficiaries.
Florida Blue, the Sunshine State's largest insurer, has launched a project with data exchange platform Availity and ambulatory electronic health record vendor Greenway that will enable physicians to exchange clinical summaries with the health plan through their EHRs.
Big data offers big promise for the future of medicine, and at the annual TEDMED conference Tuesday in the nation's capital, speakers put forth ideas that included the use "digital traces" and "digital bread crumbs" as ways to help guage a patient's health.
The Premier healthcare alliance, which includes 2,800 hospitals and 93,000 other provider and payer organizations across the country, has partnered with Phytel to automate population health services in order to help its members scale their efforts to improve patient care and adapt to a rapidly changing healthcare system.
After rejecting the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion, Florida Republican lawmakers have proposed what they call a market-based program for covering the uninsured that's entirely state-funded, prompting criticism from Democrats, progressive advocates and even the Republican governor, Rick Scott.
Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley is expected to sign legislation expanding Medicaid eligibility and funding the state health insurance exchange with funds from an existing insurance tax.
Although physicians have always valued prompt, accurate and complete claims payment, the need for such payment has become more important as physician practices try to balance increasing costs with shrinking reimbursement.
The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange announced Thursday that it had submitted its ICD-10 industry readiness survey to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Its findings continue to show insufficient readiness for the October 2014 transition deadline.
In most states, the difference between premium rates for young and old members is already largely within the 3:1 ratio set by the Affordable Care Act, according to a new study by the consumer website Health Pocket.