Healthcare Finance Staff
A new report by Trust for America's Health offers solutions to policy makers and the public to increase preventative healthcare. According to the report, prevention improves health and productivity "while saving billions in health care costs."
The HIPAA Privacy and Security Omnibus final rule – issued by HHS on Jan. 17 – should bring some long-awaited clarification and certainty to marketing, fundraising and other aspects of safeguarding and using health information.
Our monthly roundup of the most recent fraudsters to hit healthcare's dragnet.
The introduction of health insurance exchanges is generating interest among health plan members who purchase insurance directly, as well as those who have high deductibles and/or lower levels of overall satisfaction, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2013 Member Health Plan Study released today.
The cHealth Blog is coming up on its 3rd anniversary and during that time I've taken my share of pot shots at organized medicine. Most implementations of connected health are in some way disruptive to the status quo, so I can't help but point out those opportunities and barriers.
In the grand finale of the 2013 HIMSS Annual Conference and Exhibition in New Orleans, Karl Rove and James Carville took the stage for a most theatrical debate on sequestration, party politics, immigration and, of course, healthcare reform.
Key decisions for Minnesota's health insurance exchange now have to be settled by a legislative conference committee, after House and Senate bills established different financing, board membership and regulatory provisions.
When the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposed, in mid-February, an additional 2.3 percent cut to the rates it pays private insurers for running Medicare Advantage plans in 2014, the reaction from America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) was swift, comprehensive and sustained.
A report issued this week by the Government Accountability Office reports that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services overpaid the Medicare Advantage program run by private health insurers by between $3.2 billion and $5.1 billion for the years 2010-2012.