Healthcare Finance Staff
As the number of mobile health apps continue to grow, along with public demand for them, one company has found a way to open the pipelines of innovation by eliminating the need for multiple application programming interfaces (APIs).
After a federal district judge temporarily blocked a Georgia prompt payment law applying to self-funded plans and third party administrators (TPAs), the American Medical Association (AMA) is challenging some of the pillars of federal preemption under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA).
In the first year of new medical loss ratio (MLR) requirements, insurers spent less than 1 percent of premium revenue on rebates or quality improvements, according to an analysis by the Commonwealth Fund.
Accountable care organizations might be today's hope for grappling with healthcare costs and bumping up quality, but according to one expert, they are doomed to fail without one key element.
You should read Dr. Scott Gottlieb's opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal (The Doctor Won't See You Now. He's Clocked Out). He argues that ObamaCare is making independent physician practices obsolete by forcing physicians to work for big hospitals as part of ACOs, is imposing high costs for information technology on those who try to remain independent, and that the Administration's policies will have the ironic consequence of driving up costs since employed physicians are less productive.
As healthcare organizations try to make hay with big data, venturing into new areas such as predictive analytics and data discovery, they're ramping up their investments in analytics and business intelligence tools, according to a new survey from Lavastorm Analytics.
The Department of Health and Human Services has to fill some gaps in improper payment reduction and reporting compliance, according to the agency's Office of the Inspector General (OIG).
One example of the dilemmas posed by the rise of personalized medicine is Alzheimer's Disease: the ApoE genetic test can predict early onset of it, but there's still no effective therapy to stop dementia.
A survey of small employers by eHealth, Inc. has found many struggling to understand their legal responsibilities and new choices under the Affordable Care Act.
Today in the third of three hearings held by subcommittees of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Farzad Mostashari, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology reassured a congressional panel that health IT interoperability will take some dramatic leaps forward within the next two years.