Healthcare Finance Staff
Highlighting a potential solution to a problem plaguing parts of the industry, a new study provides evidence suggesting that point-of-care case management can reduce patient hospital readmissions and also pay for itself.
California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Iowa, Maryland, Nevada, New York, and Vermont have received new grants to help them build health insurance exchanges, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced on Thursday.
Healthcare services provider Metropolitan Health Networks is buying two primary care practices in Palm Beach, expanding the company's already-large foothold servicing Medicare members and hinting at its future goals.
Medicare- and Medicaid-focused health insurers continue to be the most sought after dance partners of the acquisition ball, as evidenced by yesterday's announcement that Aetna would purchase Coventry Health Care in a cash and stock deal valued at $5.7 billion.
Health insurers are embracing social media, mobile health applications and even games as they position themselves for accountable care and try to encourage their members to take more interest in their wellness, according to a new report from Chilmark Research.
In late August, Highmark opened its ninth Highmark Direct retail store in an Erie, Pennsylvania shopping plaza, highlighting a trend that is "about to accelerate dramatically," the consulting firm Oliver Wyman predicts, as more Americans buy health insurance on the open market or in government-mandated exchanges and employer-provided insurance declines.
Employer-sponsored health care is at a crossroads, with myriad financial challenges, legal uncertainties and the result of the 2012 election weighing heavily on company decisions about healthcare benefits, according to a new Deloitte issue brief.
If you were tired of the lies, half-truths and fear-mongering that has pervaded the health reform debate for the past three years, well strap on your hip waders, because it's about to get deep.
Most of the headlines about the choice of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as running mate for presidential candidate Mitt Romney have screamed about how the author of the House budget plan would upend the Medicare program and upset seniors' certainty about healthcare. Ryan's plans for Medicaid, however, are more extreme and immediate.
In early August, Humana purchased Harris, Rothenberg International, a private company providing employee assistance programs, or EAPs. Considering that the EAP market is so consolidated, observers say, the acquisition may be more about staying competitive than generating new revenue.