Healthcare Finance Staff
Trying to preserve an affiliation deal, insurer Highmark is seeking a temporary restraining order to prevent West Penn Allegheny Health System from "starting affiliation/acquisition discussions with other organizations."
Humana inks 16-county Medicaid managed care deal in Kentucky; South Carolina to add 65,000 children to Medicaid; and Arkansas launches new Medicaid initiative in this week's Medicaid Digest.
Among the pods of debate in Denver on Oct. 3, the issue of healthcare was every bit as fiery as the oft-considered more popular economy, jobs, and the widely-divisive role of government.
Three years after launching a 750-patient Medicare Advantage collaborative care pilot, Portland, Maine-based independent physician practice NovaHealth and insurer Aetna have shown concrete results in improving care quality and reducing costs. Technology and provider-payer cooperation played a large part in the program's success.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona and nonprofit health system Banner Health have announced an equal partnership designed to provide a coordinated Medicare Advantage plan to be known as Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona Advantage.
Andrew Bazemore, MD
Director, The Robert Graham Center
Washington, D.C.
The American Medical Group Association (AMGA) announced Thursday its definition of high-performing health systems. Leaders of the trade association said they issued the definition to educate legislators and the public about the need for meaningful change to improve patient care.
The number of Medicare Advantage plans being offered is expected to increase next year, along with enrollment, which is a recipe for growth, according to an Avalere Health report.
Minnesota gets more grant money, 70 HIX questions from state lawmaker; Nebraska and Hawaii choose minimum benefit levels; and private exchanges on the rise in this week's HIX Digest.
A collaboration between NantHealth and Blue Shield of California announced Tuesday will see the two organizations develop a clinic-based "continuous learning center" (CLC) that will leverage supercomputing systems, high-speed, secure-fiber networks and fact-based genomic data systems, which will allow providers to provide personalized, molecular-based medicine.