Healthcare Finance Staff
Employer spending on wellness incentives has doubled since 2009 and more companies are requiring employees to undergo biometric tests, according to survey by Fidelity Investments and the National Business Group on Health.
Management consulting firm Deloitte and Intermountain Healthcare have forged a five-year deal that will see the companies tap into nearly two trillion unique medical data elements collected over 40 years, with the goal of gaining treatment insights that can be shared with physicians, hospitals, manufacturers, vendors and payers across the country.
Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe has been given federal permission to explore a quasi-voucher-based Medicaid expansion, with beneficiaries buying subsidized private health plans through the state-federal partnership insurance exchange.
As the use of molecular diagnostics increases -- amid the race to $1,000-or-less genomic sequencing -- McKesson and the American Medical Association (AMA) have entered into a licensing partnership to create a registry of the growing list of genomic, metabolomic, proteomic and other molecular tests.
With an eye towards health reform improvements, the Department of Vermont Health Access has signed a four-year $48 million contract with HP Enterprise Services, which will continue on as the state's Medicaid fiscal agent after more than three decades.
Practice Fusion, a free, Web-based electronic medical record (EMR) platform, announced Wednesday its acquisition of 100Plus, a personalized health prediction startup that uses data analytics and game mechanics to show how small changes in behavior can lead to better health.
Call it a post-reelection prediction: On the day after President Barack Obama secured a second term at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, an attorney for a prominent healthcare law firm suggested that even Republican governors would succumb to the lure of expanding Medicaid on the federal dime.
Aetna is now marketing its population health and information technology businesses and products under a new division, called Healthagen, with the aim of expanding provider collaboration and offering patients mobile health tools.
More than half of employers have not calculated the cost and impact of healthcare reform on their benefit packages for employees, even though most employers want to avoid cost increases for their group health plans, according to a survey released by the Willis Human Capital Practice, a unit of insurance broker Willis Group Holdings.
A new survey has found that 70 percent of healthcare professionals are skeptical that the state and/or federal health insurance exchanges (HIX) will be ready to launch by the Oct. 1, 2013 deadline.