Healthcare Finance Staff
Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton signed the state's health insurance exchange into law Wednesday after a legislative committee reconciled regulatory differences between a set of bills passed last week.
After several occasionally fractious public hearings on nonprofit tax exemptions, Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl is challenging the tax exempt status of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), the largest healthcare provider and employer in western Pennsylvania.
A new report released Wednesday examines the health and well-being of people living in nearly every county in the United States, and finds that rates of premature deaths are at the lowest level in 20 years. Nevertheless, people in the unhealthiest counties are dying too early at more than twice the rates of those in the healthiest counties, according to the 2013 Health Rankings, published by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute.
Employers in states that reject Medicaid expansion could face annual penalties of up to $1.3 billion
State governors who say expanding the Medicaid program as spelled out in the Affordable Care Act is bad for business, may in fact be hurting business owners more by refusing to expand the insurance program for the poor.
The House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, will launch a three-day series of hearings today to investigate issues involving mobile health -- particularly how to keep innovation flowing without over-regulating.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, the state's largest insurer, formerly tax-exempt and serving as a guaranteed issuer since 1980, is now subject to the same market rules as its competitors as it becomes a nonprofit mutual company -- with a 70 percent share of the state's commercial market -- under a law signed by the governor Monday.
Vermont Health Connect, the state insurance exchange, has released a draft version of administrative rules for small group coverage, the first of several frameworks that will govern what's envisioned as a stepping stone to a publicly-financed, single-payer health system.
Premier Research Institute Vice President and Chief Scientist Eugene A. Kroch and two hospital executives shared what they believe to be the top characteristics associated with a healthcare organization's readiness to form an accountable care organization (ACO) during a webinar on Thursday.
Analytics technologies, especially tools that track population health, are the chief investment priority for organizations pursuing accountable care, according to a new report from IDC Health Insights.
With some healthcare providers now into their second year of meaningful use reporting, Medicare and Medicaid electronic health record payments were estimated at $12.3 billion paid to a total of 219,000 physicians and hospitals through February since the program's inception.