Healthcare Finance Staff
Pharmacists at 25 Rite Aid stores in greater Cleveland are offering diabetes control programs, as a part of UnitedHealth Group's community-based diabetes management and prevention initiative.
GOP governors mull exchange options; NAIC compiling list of questions for HHS on HIX implementation; and Conn. group urges state exchange to be an "active purchaser" in this week's HIX Digest.
More than half of all Medicare claims denial appeals are overturned by administrative law judges according to a recent report by the HHS Office of the Inspector General.
Much has been written and said about the effect of the election on the implementation of federal health reform initiatives. The commentariat, including the blogerati and twitterati wings, have focused on the budget battles of the future to come from Capitol Hill, the flurry of regulations to come from HHS, and the last stand of the boys in red in certain state capitals around the country against implementation of health insurance exchanges and Medicaid expansion under the ACA.
The Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services has selected eight managed care companies to coordinate health care for about 136,000 Medicaid-Medicare eligible patients, as part of the federal government's dual eligible demonstration with the states.
The nonprofit think tank Catalyst for Payment Reform has found links between provider market concentration and increasing healthcare costs, and in a new report outlines a number of recommendations for finding value-based payment delivery models.
Two former eHealth executives have launched a free consumer information website called HealthPocket.com, aimed at bringing more transparency to insurance markets.
With the intention of forming a collaborative network of 20 non-competing, not-for-profit health systems in the Southeast, WellStar Health System announced yesterday that it had acquired the trade name, trademark and other assets of the bankrupt Center for Health Transformation (CHT), a for-profit think-tank founded by Newt Gingrich.
In this week's HIX Digest, policy makers breath a sigh of relief after HHS extends the blueprint deadline; Republicans are still on the fence; and a new report looks at how the Massachusetts Connector impacted the small group market.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Friday extended the deadline for states to declare their plans for a state-based health insurance exchange for four weeks in order to accommodate governors who were awaiting results of the 2012 election to decide whether to move ahead.